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Old 26th Nov 2002, 20:51
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Who are Euroceltic? From what I can gather from this and the other main ECY thread.....

Euroceltic are a UK AOC-holding airline owned by an irish consortium, have no currently operational aircraft (two parked F27's, one of which was damaged in an incident in Sligo in October) and have reportedly served notice on their flight crews (is this correct?). They hold the contracts for two government-subsidised domestic Irish routes and also operate Waterford to Dublin, Liverpool and Luton. With no operational aircraft, all ECY services are operated by wet-lease Fokker 50's from Danish operator New Air and ad hoc flight-specific lease-in's from other airlines. They are rumoured (and this is a rumour forum!) to be in talks with New Air with a view to a closer relationship, how deep time will tell. It has been reported that they are in the process of buying four ex Aer Lingus Fokker 50's but seem to have issues with with getting them onto their UK AOC.

Have I missed anything?
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