Futura International Airways

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Futura International Airways
IATA FH	ICAO FUA	Callsign FUTURA
Founded		1989
Fleet size		17
Destinations
Headquarters		Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Key people
Website: http://www.futura-aer.com/

Futura International Airways is an Airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It mostly operates charter flights within Europe.

1 History
2 Destinations
- 2.1 Domestic
- 2.2 International
3 Livery
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References
7 Copyright Credit

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1989 by Aer Lingus, Belton Air and Banco Santander, starting operations on February 17, 1990 with a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Manchester. During the 1990s, the airline expanded to cover most of Europe, and today it operates, under the leadership of CEO Roman Pané [1], its own scheduled flights and ad-hoc flights on behalf of various tour operators and airlines in Europe, North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. Futura operates from 5 permanent bases: Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife, Málaga, Gran Canaria and Dublin; as well as various other seasonal bases throughout the year. (Source: [2]). Futura serves (wet lease system) certain flights of Binter Canarias: Paris > Gran Canaria, Milano > Gran Canaria and most recently Paris (flying from Orly Sud) - Lisbon (on the behalf of Aigle Azur).

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Domestic

Futura Boeing 737 at Funchal (Madeira) in February 2003.

[edit] International

[edit] Livery

Futura's airplanes are painted in white through the fuselage area, with the name Futura in blue over the front passenger windows. The tails carry Futura's logo and are painted blue.

[edit] Fleet

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The Futura International Airways fleet consists of only Boeing 737 (as of August 2006) <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref> :

Aircraft	#	Seats
Boeing 737-300	2	148
Boeing 737-400	8	170
Boeing 737-800	10 (plus 3 on order)	189

In May 2006, it has leased two ex-MNG Airlines Boeing 737-400 registered EC-JSJ and EC-JSS and an ex-Air Horizons Boeing 737-800 (registered EC-JRL). Another Boeing 737-300 joined the fleet in July (EC-JXD)

In July 2006 Futura ordered 3 Boeing 737-800s for delivery in 2009 and 2010 with purchase rights for another three aircraft. In 2008 will take delivery of two leased Boeing 737-900ER ^{[citation needed]}