Privilege Style is a Spanish

charter airline Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline). Regulation Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flight ...

headquartered in

Palma de Mallorca Palma (, ; ), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is ...

and based at

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Operations

According to the airline, its VIP customers include several Spanish companies and also teams from Spain's first football league. In June and July 2014, Privilege Style operated

Finnair Finnair Plc (, ) is the flag carrier and largest full-service legacy airline of Finland, with headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its airline hub, hub. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both domestic and international ...

's flights from

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while one of Finnair's A330s was out of service for extended maintenance. The same happened again in December 2015. In the summer of 2015, the airline leased its Boeing 767-300ER to

El Al EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. (), trading as EL AL (, "Upwards", "To the Skies", or "Skywards", stylized as ELAL; ) is the flag carrier of Israel. Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve ...

. As of June 2016, all of Privilege Style's aircraft were operating for El Al, except the 767 which currently operates for

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. In 2018, the 777 has been operated daily for

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on their since terminated Rome-Newark route, due to major technical issues affecting Norwegian’s 787 fleet. In late spring 2019, Norwegian again started using Privilege Style's 777 for their London-Miami route. In November 2019,

Surinam Airways Surinam Airways (), also known by its initials ''SLM'', is the flag carrier of Suriname, based in Paramaribo. It operates regional and long-haul scheduled passenger services. Its hub is at Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (Zanderij). Sur ...

started using Privilege Style's 777 for their Paramaribo to Amsterdam route, after they had to suddenly retire their only long-haul plane, an aging Airbus A340. In February 2021, Privilege Style selected the

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as a replacement for their aging 757s. The used A321 was previously operated by

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. The company was scheduled to undertake a deportation flight of asylum seekers from the

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on 14 June 2022 although this never went ahead due to legal challenges. After pressure from various campaign groups, in October 2022 the company announced that it would not carry out any future deportation flights between the two countries. In June 2023, an

Airbus A330 The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet, and launched both designs along ...

previously operated by

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was added to the fleet as a replacement for the

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Fleet

As of May 2024, Privilege Style's fleet consists of the following aircraft:planespotters.net - Privilege Style Fleet Details and History
retrieved 30 May 2024

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of Spain Airlines of Spain Airlines established in 2003 2003 establishments in Spain