Thomsonfly

Thomsonfly
Founded	18 December 2003
Commenced operations	31 March 2004
Ceased operations	1 May 2009; (merged with First Choice Airways to form Thomson Airways)
Operating bases	Belfast–International; Birmingham; Bournemouth; Cardiff; Doncaster/Sheffield; East Midlands; Glasgow; Leeds/Bradford; Liverpool; London–Gatwick; London–Luton; London–Stansted; Manchester; Newcastle upon Tyne;
Parent company	TUI Travel plc
Headquarters	Luton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Key people	Chris Browne (MD); John Murphy (DFO); Dawn Wilson (Director of Ground Operations);
Website	www.thomson.co.uk

Thomsonfly was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it became part of TUI Travel PLC. The new holiday company continued with both in-house airlines (Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways) through winter 2007 and summer 2008 until the two were merged on 1 November 2008 as Thomson Airways.

Thomsonfly Limited held a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.^[1]

History

As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly.^[2] Thomsonfly Limited changed its name to Thomson Airways in October 2008.^[3]

Fleet

In October 2008, the Thomsonfly fleet comprised:^[4]

**Thomsonfly fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers^[5]	Routes
Boeing 737-300	11	148	Short and medium haul
Boeing 737-500	4	131	Short haul
Boeing 737-800	16	189	Short and medium haul
Boeing 757-200	20	235	Short and medium haul
Boeing 767-200ER	4	290	Short, medium and long haul
Boeing 767-300ER	9	283 / 328	Short, medium and long haul
Total	64

Statistics


	Number of passengers^[6]	Number of flights^[7]	Load factor^[8]
2005	9,505,928	52,461	80.1%
2006	9,617,416	54,063	82.6%
2007	9,444,973	54,515	84.6%
^{Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority [1]}

References

^ CAA operating licence
^ "Axe falls as Britannia parent TUI restructures". Flight Global. 5 October 2004. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
^ New Thomson Airways brand launched Archived 10 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ CAA Aircraft Register
^ Thomsonfly Fleet
^ Number of passengers uplifted on both scheduled and non-scheduled flights.
^ Number of flights represents total flights during that year.
^ Load factor represents number of seat-km used as a proportion of number of seat-km available.