DutchCaribbeanExel was an

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

with its head office in

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. The airline connected from the

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to the

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and was based at

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Amsterdam Airport Schiphol , known informally as Schiphol Airport ( nl, Luchthaven Schiphol, ), is the main international airport of the Netherlands. It is located southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province ...

History

The airline was established in 2004 and started operations on July 15, 2004. It was wholly owned by ExelAviation Group. The airline folded in early February 2005 when the group declared bankruptcy. The ExelAviation Group started to disintegrate late-2004, soon after the takeover of

DutchBird DutchBird was a charter airline based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It operated charter services to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Tunisia and the Canary Islands for a number of holiday companies. Its main base was Schiphol Airport. History The airline ...

; when failed

Air Holland Air Holland Charter B.V. was an airline based in the Netherlands. It operated passenger and cargo charters to Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, as well as dry and wet leasing of aircraft to other airlines. It ceased operations on March 25, 200 ...

(declared bankrupt with €30M in debt) was investigated for alleged laundering of drug money and arrests were made, it put HollandExel in negative publicity as well. In February 2005, HollandExel filed for the Dutch equivalent of Chapter 11 and its main client, tour operator TUI Netherlands invested millions to keep the airline flying. Two months later, TUI Netherlands continued HollandExel under new management, operating as

ArkeFly TUI fly Netherlands, legally incorporated as ''TUI Airlines Netherlands'' (formerly branded as ''Arkefly'' and ''Arke''), is a Dutch charter airline headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, ...

and the fleet of aircraft plus some 400 employees moved to the new company. DutchCaribbeanExel would later, together with its sister airline, HollandExel, be taken over by

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and renamed it as ''Arkefly Curaçao''.

Destinations

DutchCaribbeanExel operated the following services (in January 2005):

Fleet

The DutchCaribbeanExel fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at April 2005):

References

External links

DutchCaribbeanExel
(Archive)
DutchCaribbeanExel Fleet Detail
{{Airlines of the Netherlands Defunct airlines of the Netherlands Airlines established in 2004 Airlines disestablished in 2005 ExelAviation

History

Destinations

Fleet

See also

References

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