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XL Airways UK
Status Out of business
Base London Gatwick
IATA Code JN
ICAO Code XLA
Website n/a
Country United Kingdom
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20.12.2008 - HiFly (5K/Lisbon) will lease a new A330-200 that had originally been ordered by defunct XL Airways UK. It has also added two A340-500 that have not been taken up by Kingfisher Airlines (IT/Bangalore) and now operates the aircraft on behalf of Arik Air (W3/Lagos) on the Lagos-London Heathrow route.

14.12.2008 - Neos (NO/Milan Malpensa) has leased an ex-XL Airways UK B737-800 to replace some of the charter flights for Italian tour operators previously operated by now defunct Futura Intl Airways. It has wet-leased the aircraft to NasAir (Eritrea) (UE/Asmara) for the winter season.

14.12.2008 - Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has not been able to take over the majority of AirUnion routes because of a lack of suitable aircraft. It is unclear how many aircraft have actually been transferred from failed AirUnion carriers Domodedovo Airlines, Kras Air and Samara Airlines but the number is expected to be very small so far including three B757-200s and one B767-200ER. Atlant-Soyuz has leased two ex-XL Airways UK B737-800s. It will launch some former AirUnion routes now and has adopted the 7B carrier code from defunct Kras Air:
Krasnoyarsk-Beijing: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 15
Krasnoyarsk-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23
Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk-Yakutsk: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on January 5
Krasnoyarsk-Khudzhand: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23
Krasnoyarsk-Norilsk: 6x weekly Tu-154M service (already launched)
Krasnoyarsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 29
Krasnoyarsk-Yuzhno Sakhalinsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 26
Moscow Vnukovo-Athens: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on March 18
Moscow Vnukovo-Blagoveschensk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 22
Moscow Vnukovo-Bukhara: weekly B737-300 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Dushanbe: 2x daily Tu-154M service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Fergana: weekly B737-300 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Grodno: 4x weekly EMB-120 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Gyandzha: weekly B737-300 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Ivanovo: 2x daily EMB-120 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Khabarovsk: 4x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21
Moscow Vnukovo-Krasnoyarsk: daily Tu-154M service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Norilsk: weekly Tu-154M service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Omsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21
Moscow Vnukovo-Salzburg: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20
Moscow Vnukovo-Samarkand: 2x weekly B737-300 service (already launched)
Moscow Vnukovo-Tashkent: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20
Moscow Vnukovo-Tomsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21
Moscow Vnukovo-Yakutsk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21
Samara-Baku: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 24
Samara-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23
Samara-Yerevan: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 28
It is also planning to resume previous AirUnion services from Moscow Vnukovo to Beijing, Kazan and Tivat.

13.12.2008 - AnadoluJet (TK/Ankara Esenboga) has leased a first ex-SkyEurope Airlines (NE/Bratislava) B737-700, an ex-XL Airways UK B737-800 and will add another ex-SkyEurope B737-700 soon. AnadoluJet will also lease both B737-700s currently operating for Astraeus (5W/London Gatwick).It will use the aircraft to replace three B737-400s.

20.09.2008 - XL Airways UK (JN/London Gatwick) has filed for bankruptcy on September 12 and has suspended all operations when the entire XL Leisure Group collapsed. It had operated scheduled and charter services, mainly to destinations in Southern Europe and the Caribbean. Its sister carriers XL Airways France (SE/Paris CDG) and XL Airways Germany (G1/Frankfurt Intl) continue to operate as usual.


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