Peach Air was a United Kingdom

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that operated for two years between 1997 and 1998.

History

Peach Air was formed in 1996. It was part of

Caledonian Airways (1988) Caledonian Airways was a British charter airline established in 1988 by rebranding British Airtours when that company's parent British Airways took over British Caledonian. It merged in 2000 with Flying Colours Airlines to form JMC Air. Histor ...

, created to operate for the tour operator Goldcrest. In 1999,

Thomas Cook Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) was an English businessman. He is best known for founding the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was also one of the initial developers of the "package tour" including travel, accommodation ...

completed the acquisition of Carlson Leisure Group, who operated Caledonian Airways and Peach Air. This led to a complete rebrand by Thomas Cook of its growing tour operation. In 2000, Thomas Cook rebranded their charter airline operations as

JMC Air JMC Airlines Limited (also known as JMC Air, JMC Airlines or simply JMC and stylised as jmc) was a UK charter airline formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and Flying Colours Airlines, following the purchase of Thomas Cook & Son by the Car ...

, part of a new universal customer-facing brand "JMC". Flying Colours ordered 2

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aircraft to begin long haul operations; these aircraft arrived after the JMC rebrand. JMC Air was rebranded as

Thomas Cook Airlines Thomas Cook Airlines Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline headquartered in Manchester, England. It was founded in 2007 from the merger of Thomas Cook Group and MyTravel Group, and was part of the Thomas Cook Group Airlines. It ...

in 2002. Thomas Cook Airlines UK then announced a merger with fellow Manchester-founded airline

MyTravel Airways MyTravel Group plc was a British, global travel group headquartered in Rochdale, England. It was founded in 1972 as Airtours Group. The group included two in-house airlines, MyTravel Airways UK and MyTravel Airways Scandinavia, and various t ...

. The parent companies had merged in June 2007, with the two airlines merging in November that year.

Fleet

The carrier operated 2

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and 4

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{{Airlines of the United Kingdom Airlines established in 1996 Airlines disestablished in 2000 British Airways Defunct charter airlines of the United Kingdom 1996 establishments in England 1998 disestablishments in England British companies established in 1996 British companies disestablished in 2000

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