Palmair
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| Founded | 1993 |
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| Ceased operations | April 2011 |
| Hubs | Bournemouth Airport |
| Fleet size | 1 at closure |
| Destinations | 14 |
| Parent company | R.E. Bath Travel Service (Palmair) Ltd |
| Headquarters | Bournemouth, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Peter Bath (Founder) Deceased David Skillicorn (MD) |
| Website | www.palmair.co.uk |
Palmair was a British tour operator with its head office in the Space House in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Palmair offered charter and scheduled flights on behalf of Bath Travel. Its main base was Bournemouth Airport. Palmair have now stopped any flights for the foreseeable future and the airline has been placed into a "deep freeze" until the economic climate improves.
The company holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Air Travel Organiser's Licence (ATOL0003)
The first Palmair charter took place in 1958 with a single flight to Palma followed a year later with just 2 flights. Over the following years the number of flights increased and expanded to a range of destinations, chartering aircraft from a number of different airlines.
In 1993 the company formed its own airline, Palmair Flightline, operating a BAe 146 aircraft. Upgraded aircraft were acquired in 1999 to reflect increased demand for capacity from Bournemouth and for the introduction of longer range routes. Until winter 1999 services was operated by Flightline, using a single BAe 146–300. In 2003 Palmair carried 75,000 passengers. In 2004 the company operated scheduled passenger flights to ten European airports, and day trips to 25 European cities.
On 22 December 2006, founder, Peter Bath, who had previously seen off every flight personally, died, aged 79.
In November 2008, European Aviation, which had been operating a Boeing 737-200 for Palmair, ceased trading meaning that the Boeing 737-200 was grounded.
For winter 08/09, Palmair flights were operated by Jet2.com using a Boeing 737-300.
On 9 May 2009, Palmair resumed flights with a Boeing 737-500 aircraft operated by Astraeus. The continued using the plane until October 2010 when it left Bournemouth Airport for the last time. The original agreement between Palmair and Astraeus was for Palmair to use the plane up until April 2012, but due to unforeseen circumstances it had to be handed back to Astraeus.
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