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Old 5th Dec 2000, 16:16
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Firstly Good luck!!

If your selected you'll be sent to Cab Air at Cranfield for your basic training which I think includes 6 weeks in Florida.

This is the best info I could get!

The second largest charter airline in the UK, Air 2000 is a subsidiary of the First Choice Group. The First Choice tour operator division feeds Air 2000 with approximately 66% of the 7 million passengers it carries per year. In the summer months, Air 2000 operates from 15 UK and Irish airports to approximately 50 popular tourist destinations,next year they will begin charter flights to recife and natal in Brazil,also they offer non-stop scheduled flights from London (Gatwick), Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle to Larnaca and Paphos as well as sched's to PMI ACE and others. Whilst during slacker winter months Air 2000 dry leases aircraft overseas.
Air 2000 is ranked 62nd largest airline in the world by passenger

In 1999, Air 2000 won the Best UK Charter Airline Award (Travel Weekly), Top Short-haul Charter Airline 1999 by Travel Bulletin Magazine and Best Charter Airline for 1999 by the Scottish Passenger Agents Association.


History Date established: 1986

Date operations started: 11 Apr 1987


Founded in 1986 with a fleet of two Boeing 757, using Manchester Airport as its operational base, the inaugural service departed for Malaga on 11 April 1987. Air 2000 then proceeded to open several hubs; Glasgow in 1988, Gatwick in 1990, Birmingham International in 1991, Bristol in 1992, Newcastle in 1994, Belfast in 1995 and Stansted in 1998. 1996 Dublin became the airline's first international hub. A new livery was launched in November 1996, which brought the airline closer to First Choice's by using it's corporate colours.

First Choice, Air 2000s owner purchased Unijet, Leisure International Airways
(Gawd bless 'em)' owner in June 1998. Leisure International Airways has now been fully integrated into Air 2000.

The Fleet consists of;

Airbus Industrie A320-200 4
Airbus Industrie A321-200 5
Boeing 757-200 11
Boeing 767-300ER 4






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