Eastern Airways
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| Founded | 1997 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 31 | ||||||
| Destinations | 18 | ||||||
| Company slogan | Why fly any other way? | ||||||
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Humberside Airport Kirmington, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom |
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| Key people | Richard Lake (MD) Brian Huxford (Chairman) |
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| Website | www.easternairways.com | ||||||
Air Kilroe Limited, trading as Eastern Airways, is a British airline whose head office is at Humberside Airport in Kirmington, North Lincolnshire, England. It operates scheduled domestic and international services and private charter services. Around 800,000 passengers a year are carried on the scheduled route network.
It has crew bases at Newcastle Airport, Durham Tees Valley Airport, Humberside Airport, East Midlands Airport, Aberdeen Airport, Wick Airport, Norwich International Airport, Southampton Airport and Orly Airport in France. Air Kilroe Limited trading as Eastern Airways holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.
The airline started operations in December 1997 with a scheduled service between Humberside and Aberdeen following KLM's withdrawal from the route. In February 1999 it purchased Manchester based Air Kilroe, granting the company an Air Operator's Certificate and giving the airline a fleet of two BAe Jetstream 32 aircraft. In 2002 the first J41 entered the Eastern fleet, the aircraft type which now forms the majority of the fleet. 12 BAe Jetstream 41 aircraft and their associated routes were transferred from British Airways CitiExpress on 30 March 2003 giving Eastern a springboard into many regional UK airports which have now become aircraft bases. In 2003 an Embraer 145 and 135 were wet leased from City Airline to compete on some longer routes. They were quickly replaced with Saab 2000 aircraft due to similar speed and lower fuel consumption. Since 2003 the company has acquired further Saab 2000 aircraft from Crossair and other European carriers and a number of additional Jetstream 41 aircraft from American regional carriers. The airline was owned by Bryan Huxford (59%) and Richard Lake (41%).; however, the Bristow Group, a large helicopter operator serving the offshore oil and gas industry in the U.K., U.S. and elsewhere, now has a 60% ownership stake in the airline.
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