View Full Version : Airline head offices at airports they don't serve?
No comment
27th Aug 2009, 16:15
Just a Thursday thought, are there any airlines with head offices at airports they don't serve? I can't think of any in the UK but might be mistaken!
bar none
27th Aug 2009, 16:19
BA Cityflier at Manchester !
4whites
27th Aug 2009, 17:41
ScotAirways at Cambridge
EI-BUD
27th Aug 2009, 18:00
Not sure about Jet2, is it at Bournemouth?
jet2impress
27th Aug 2009, 18:53
Jet2 was in BOH until a couple of years back. The HQ is now at LBA.
towser
27th Aug 2009, 18:58
BA Cityflyers headquarters aren't even at an airport!
ZeBedie
27th Aug 2009, 19:16
TUI and Monarch are both close to quiting LTN.
goatface
27th Aug 2009, 19:31
Most airline HQs have historical links even if they don't have bases there any more.
BA Citiflyer were BA Regional, which was born, if not concieved as a Manchester base, even if Mummy and Daddy were from London.
Jet2 are close cousins of Channel Express and lived in adjoining Council Houses as youngsters in Bournmouth before Uncle Philip spread his favours:E.
Suckling Airways were concieved and born in Cambridge, grew up went to Junior School and the first two years of High Schol there, when along came Scot Airways with the usual Scottish foreplay and adopted them as Mc Cousins.
TUI, as far as I know, have always operated from office buildings, their Ops for the entire fleet, as far as I know, are based in a huge underground bunker in Hamburg.
Monarch are one of the few airlnes that have always been faithful to the cause and always have been based at Luton Airport.
Skipness One Echo
27th Aug 2009, 21:01
So Thomson Airways no longer are based at Luton Airport?
TartinTon
27th Aug 2009, 21:27
Course they are ZeBedie...bit less of the sauce, mate :rolleyes::rolleyes:
lplsprog
28th Aug 2009, 09:45
Haven't US Airways got their European centre in Liverpool?
loggerhead
28th Aug 2009, 09:54
ZeBedie??? What... !!!???
ImPlaneCrazy
28th Aug 2009, 10:45
TUI and Monarch are both close to quiting LTN.
Are you talking operationally, or with regard to their headquaters?
Spitfire boy
28th Aug 2009, 10:51
bmi at EMA (ok bmi baby and bmir do fly from there)
Wizzair (W6) at Geneva (GVA)
The SSK
7th Jul 2010, 09:00
The European Regional Airlines Association is based at Fairoaks, where none of its members operate.
Wizz Air's HQ is at 59 Lorinci UT, Vecses, Budapest
dublindispatch
7th Jul 2010, 10:29
I think Aeroflot still have a station manager and office in Dublin!!!
Richard Taylor
8th Jul 2010, 17:07
eastern at Humberside. :}
not an airline but ....
Servisair House
Hampton Court
Manor Park
Runcon
Cheshire
how far is the nearest airport that they are at???
pwalhx
8th Jul 2010, 19:37
Servisair have moved from Bramhall then (near Manchester Airport. Runcorn isn't that far from liverpool airport
GraemeEUK
8th Jul 2010, 21:47
A French example, Brit Air are based at Morlaix Airport which as far as I recall has no commercial routes at all. Nearby Brest (Guipavas) is their nearest active airport to their HQ.
fanrailuk
9th Jul 2010, 06:35
Back in the day, Air Wales (6G/AWW) operated from Cardiff (CWL) with HQ in Swansea (SWS), soon to follow as a base, and then back to just CWL before their demise!
PP :)
marlowe
9th Jul 2010, 08:48
When Brymon moved the operation from the international hub that was PLH, its headquarters was an industrial estate in Weston Super Mare.