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Corsairfly
Founded	1981 (as Corse Air International)
Hubs	Orly Airport, Paris
Alliance	TUI Airlines
Fleet size	8
Destinations	23
Parent company	TUI Travel PLC
Headquarters	Rungis, France
Key people	Hervé Pierret
Website	www.corsairfly.com

Corsair S.A. trading as Corsairfly, is an airline based in Rungis, France.^[1]^[2] It is currently the second largest French airline after Air France and operates international scheduled and charter services to 62 European destinations, the French overseas territories, Africa and North America. Its main base is Orly Airport, Paris^[3]

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1981 and started operations on 17 May 1981 as Corse Air International. It was founded by the Corsican Rossi family and was acquired by Nouvelles Frontières, a French tour operator, in 1990 and the name was changed to "Corsair". Worldwide traffic rights were obtained in 1991. In 2000 TUI AG, one of the world's leading tour operator groups, took over Nouvelles Frontières. In 2004, Corsair aircraft were repainted with the colours of TUI, blue fuselage with the TUI-logo, like its sister airlines. At the end of 2005 the TUI Group, decided to rename all its affiliated airlines TUIfly. As an interim step Corsair aircraft were repainted with Corsairfly markings, although all airlines in the group are expected the common TUIfly brand by 2008^[3].

The airline holds the record for most seats on a passenger aircraft (587 seats, on its Boeing 747-400s). ^[4]

Sud Aviation Caravelle of Corse Air International

Beginning 2008, the airline announced that it will look forward to expand its medium-haul network to the Mediterraneans and its long-haul network to Canada and also to the United States where it regularly flew in the 1990s. ^[5]

[edit] Destinations

Corsairfly operates most of its flight from its hub at Paris-Orly although some flights do fly from other major French cities such as Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse

Main article: Corsairfly destinations

[edit] Fleet

As of June 2008, Corsairfly's fleet has eight aircraft:^[6]

**Corsair Fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers	Routes	Notes
Airbus A330-200	2	(18/307)-325	Long-Haul Medium Density Africa, North America, Indian Ocean
Boeing 747-400	6	(24/558)-582	Long-Haul High Density Caribbean, French Overseas Territories

[edit] Photo Gallery

Boeing 747-400 F-GTUI (New Livery)

Boeing 747-300 F-GSEX (Old Livery)

Airbus A330-200 F-HCAT

[edit] References

^ "Historique de Corsairfly." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 2 June 2009.
^ "Nos métiers." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 23 September 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 69. 2007-04-03.
^ Corsairfly Fleet (Company Web site)
^ Corsair : Etats-Unis, Québec et Israël en ligne de mire
^ "Notre flotte." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 18 February 2009.

[edit] External links

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Companies portal

Aviation portal

[0] "Historique de Corsairfly." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 2 June 2009.

[1] "Nos métiers." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 23 September 2009.

[FI-2] "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 69. 2007-04-03.

[3] Corsairfly Fleet (Company Web site)

[4] Corsair : Etats-Unis, Québec et Israël en ligne de mire

[5] "Notre flotte." Corsairfly. Retrieved on 18 February 2009.

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