Hellas Jet
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Hellas Jet was a scheduled airline based in Athens in Greece. It had codeshare destinations with Olympic Airlines. Its main base was Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, Athens. All scheduled flights were suspended as of May 2005.
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The airline was established in 2002 and the first flight was operated on 24 June 2003 from Athens. At the end of the first year of operation they had completed 3,855 flights and carried over 250,000 passengers. It is owned by Cyprus Airways (75%) and European Capital Investments (25%). Cyprus Airways, parent company of Hellas Jet, has suspended all scheduled flights as of May 10 2005 due to heavy losses . In July 2005 Cyprus Airways sold 51% of its subsidiary Hellas Jet to air charter broker Air Miles. The airline now operates charter flights to/from Heraklion and Rhodes (July 2006).
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Hellas Jet operated the following scheduled services (at February 2005):
Athens, Greece (Eleftherios Venizelos Airport) to:
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(For summer 2005) In cooperation with Olympic Airlines
- To/From Brussels: OA 145/OA 146, OA 147/OA 148
- To/From Manchester: OA 277/OA 278
[edit] Fleet
The Hellas Jet fleet consisted of 3 Airbus A320-200. Two of them were returned to the lessor in spring 2006, while the third was damaged beyond repair in a hangar fire in Brussels International Airport. Two Airbus A320 were subsequently leased from Germany and Latvia.The registration of these aircrafts while flying for Hellas Jet were SX-BVA (named "Pegasus"), SX-BVB (named "Hermes"), SX-BVC (named "Orion").
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