History

Palmair is an small independent scheduled airline which flies solely out of Bournemouth International Airport in Dorset, England. It was founded in 1956 and is owned by Bath Travel – a family run travel agent with branches across southern England. Palmair's president is Peter Bath.

Palmair Boeing 737-200 in August 2003

In 2004 the company operated scheduled passenger flights to ten European airports, and day trips to 25 European cities. In 2003 Palmair carried 75,000 passengers.

In March 2003, a UK consumer magazine ‘Holiday Which?’ published the results of a survey of 20,000 UK air passengers, showing that Palmair was the top rated airline flying from the UK.

Models of Palmair aircraft are made by PPC Holland .

Destinations

Holidays:
Faro in Portugal
Funchal in Madeira
Palma (Majorca)and Mahon (Minorca) in the Balearics
Malaga and Alicante in Spain
Dubrovnik in Croatia
Corfu in Greece
Tenerife and Arrecife in the Canary Islands

Day trips: 25 destinations in Europe, including Venice, Iceland, Rome, Prague, Milan and Salzburg.

Fleet

The airline currently charters 2 Boeing 737-200s, operated with 124 seats each by European Aviation Air Charter. These aircraft are G-CEAC and G-CEAF, both previously of Sabena. Until winter 1999 the service was operated by Flightline, using a single BAe 146-300, G-BPNT.

External link

http://www.bathtravel.com/palmair

Copyright note

Photo copyrighted by, and courtesy of, Snorre and the VIP Vienna International Planespotters, with the link to Snorre's photos, by request of Snorre as condition of using his photo.