Thomsonfly was a British charter and scheduled airline. It 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 integrated on 1 November 2008 as Thomson Airways and fully merged on 1 May 2009.
Thomsonfly held a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.CAA operating licence
History As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia Airways would soon be rebranded Thomsonfly. Thomsonfly changed its name to Thomson Airways in October 2008 after it started integrating with First Choice Airways, a process that was completed on 1 May 2009.New Thomson Airways brand launched
Statistics + Number of passengersNumber of passengers uplifted on both scheduled and non-scheduled flights. Number of flightsNumber of flights represents total flights during that year. Load factorLoad factor represents number of seat-km used as a proportion of number of seat-km available.20059,505,928 52,461 80.1%20069,617,416 54,063 82.6%20079,444,973 54,515 84.6% Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority
Fleet
In October 2008, Thomsonfly operated an all-Boeing fleet composed of the following aircraft:CAA Aircraft Register
Aircraft typeTotalPassengersThomsonfly FleetRoutesBoeing 737-30011148Short and medium haulBoeing 737-5004131Short haulBoeing 737-80016189Short and medium haulBoeing 757-20020235Short and medium haulBoeing 767-200ER4290Short, medium and long haulBoeing 767-300ER9283/328Short, medium and long haulTotal64
See also List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Thomson Flights – official website TUI Travel PLC – official website TUI Group – official website Thomsonfly (archive)