Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
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 airline ticket, ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad h ...
headquartered in
Porto Salvo
Porto Salvo () is a freguesia, civil parish in the municipality of Oeiras, Portugal. It is situated to the north of the parish of Oeiras e São Julião da Barra, Paço de Arcos e Caxias. The population in 2011 was 15,157,Oeiras. It mainly operates charter flights from Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport on behalf of tour operators as well as on lease on behalf of other airlines.
History
The airline was founded in 2000, originally as Yes - Linhas Aéreas Charter under a joint venture with
TAP Air Portugal
TAP Air Portugal is the currently state-owned flag carrier airline of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – has been a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and oper ...
(75%) and Abreu Group (25%). It commenced operations in June 2000 with a leased
Lockheed L-1011-500
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, also known as the L-1011 (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") and TriStar, is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation. It was the third wide-body airliner to enter comme ...
.
In late 2006, the airline was acquired by the
Omni Aviation
Omni – Aviação e Tecnologia, trading as Omni Aviation, is an airline company headquartered in Porto Salvo, Oeiras, Lisbon Region, Portugal.
Omni was incorporated in Portugal in 1988 and has developed from a single-contract, single-client s ...
and rebranded as ''White Airways'' and focused on carrying out ACMI operations on behalf of other airlines.
In May 2016, White Airways phased out their last
Airbus A310-300
The Airbus A310 is a wide-body aircraft, designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers.
Airbus had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller than the A300, the first twin-jet wide-bo ...
as one of the last European operators of the type.
In October 2022,
TAP Air Portugal
TAP Air Portugal is the currently state-owned flag carrier airline of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – has been a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and oper ...
announced it would end its wetlease contract with White Airways citing insufficient dispatch reliability. Which was later disputed by White Airways, as the maintenance was performed by Portugália, a company part of TAP group.
Destinations
Fleet
Current fleet
As of November 2022, the White fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Former fleet
Accidents and incidents
*On July 6, 2018, an
ATR 72-600
The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (french: Avions de transport régional or it, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed by ...
(registered CS-DJG) operated on behalf of
TAP Express
TAP Express (TAP standing for ''Transportes Aéreos Portugueses'') is a Portugal, Portuguese regional airline brand name for TAP Air Portugal which operates short and medium-haul routes. TAP Air Portugal's lone wholly owned regional airline, Por ...
made a hard landing at
Fès–Saïs Airport
Saïss Airport or Fès–Saïss Airport ( ar, مطار فاس سايس الدولي) is an airport serving Fez, the capital city of the Fès-Meknès region in Morocco. The airport crossed the million passengers mark in 2017http://www.onda.ma/co ...
, during which the tail impacted the runway. The aircraft made a return flight to Lisbon an hour later with 55 passengers on board, with the captain apparently failing to notice visible damage to the tail during the pre-flight walkaround. While there were no injuries, the final report of the Portuguese
Aviation Accidents Prevention and Investigation Department
The Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents in Civil Aviation and Rail (''Gabinete de Prevenção e Investição de Acidentes com Aeronaves e de Acidentes Ferroviários'', GPIAAF, "Office of Prevention and Investigation of Aircraf ...
criticized both the flight crew and the operator for their shortcomings during the landing, organisational culture, failure to conduct an effective pre-flight inspection before the return flight, and failure to make a legally required report of the accident.
See also
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List of airlines of Portugal
This is a list of national airlines currently operating in Portugal.
Scheduled airlines
Charter airlines
See also
* List of defunct airlines of Portugal
* List of airlines
* List of airports in Portugal
References
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