Constellation International Airlines was a Belgian airline that operated during the 1990s.

Code data

* IATA Code: CQ * ICAO Code: CIN *Callsign: CONSTELLATION

History

Constellation International Airlines S.A., was established on 27 May 1978 as Unijet, rebranded as BFS International on 28 October 1981 and renamed to the last name on 7 February 1995. Started operations, with

Boeing 727-200 The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airpo ...

aircraft from Brussels Airport on 23 June 1995, which were replaced by brand new

Airbus A320 The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus. The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France. The first member of the famil ...

aircraft, leased from International Lease Finance Corporation. Constellation International Airlines was the first company in the Benelux to operate the Airbus A320 family series aircraft. Its markets were holiday flights and subservices for other companies, when the need arose. Constellation International Airlines ceased operations due to financial troubles on 3 December 1999, and was declared bankrupt on 15 December 1999.

Fleet

The Constellation Airlines historical fleet consisted of the following aircraft: *2 Airbus A320-232 (registrations: OO-COF and OO-COH) *1

Airbus A320-231 The Airbus A320 family is a series of Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus. The A320 was launched in March 1984, Maiden flight, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air F ...

(registration: OO-COL) *1

Airbus A321-231 The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the b ...

(registration: G-MIDA) *2 Boeing 727-2X3 (registrations: OO-LLS and OO-CAH) *2 Boeing 737-3H9 (registrations: YU-ANI and YU-ANK)

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{{Airlines of Belgium Defunct airlines of Belgium Airlines established in 1995 Airlines disestablished in 1999 Belgian companies established in 1995 1999 disestablishments in Belgium