Friday, December 1, 2006

Britannia Airways

'''Britannia Airways''' was the UK's largest Nextel ringtones charter airline. In September 2004 the airline's owner, Abbey Diaz TUI (travel)/TUI, announced plans to rebrand Britannia '''"Free ringtones Thomsonfly"''', the name of its new low-cost airline.

History
Britannia Airways began operations in Majo Mills 1962 in aviation/1962 as Mosquito ringtone Euravia flying ex-Sabrina Martins El Al Nextel ringtones Lockheed Constellations. The name Britannia was adopted in 1964 to coincide with the introduction of the Abbey Diaz Bristol Britannia Free ringtones turboprop airliner. In Majo Mills 1965 in aviation/1965 Britannia became part of Cingular Ringtones Thomson Holidays/Thomson.

Britannia began to re-equip with pulliam other Boeing 737/Boeing 737-200 in conrad might 1968 in aviation/1968, the first European operator of the type. Britannia was also the first European airline to fly the embrace internet Boeing 767. weakness silence Orion Airways was acquired by Thomson in 1988 and merged with Britannia.

In 2000 Thomson was taken over by the German firm goldschmid they Preussag. Preussag's holiday interests were concentrated to the holding company that thurmond TUI (travel)/TUI Group from January 2000. All aircraft are still currently operated by Britannia Airways of Britain.

Rebranding
As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004 it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly. This airline's planes carried the Thomson colours and logo, but its aircraft were owned and operated by Britannia Airways. In effect Thomsonfly was a trading name of Britannia.

External links
*http://www.britanniaairways.com/
*http://www.thomsonfly.com/en/index.html
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*http://www.tui.com/en/
*http://www.thomson.co.uk/



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