Thomsonfly was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of

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's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it became part of

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PLC. The new holiday company continued with both in-house airlines (Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways) through Winter 2007 and Summer 2008 until the two were merged on 1 November 2008 as

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. Thomsonfly Limited held a

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Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.

History

As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly. Thomsonfly Limited changed its name to

in October 2008.

Destinations

Fleet

In October 2008, the Thomsonfly fleet comprised: It also operated Boeing 737-500s during operations, but they were retired before the merger.

Statistics

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See also

* List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

This is a list of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom.

See also

* List of airlines of the United Kingdom
* List of airports in the United Kingdom and the British Crown Dependencies
References

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References

External links

Thomson Flights – Official website

TUI Travel PLC – Official website

TUI Group – Official website

Thomsonfly
(Archive)

Fleet

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Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Defunct European low-cost airlines
Airlines established in 2005
Airlines disestablished in 2008}