AirUK
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Air U.K. Limited, branded as AirUK, was a regional airline in the United Kingdom formed in 1980 as a result of a merger involving four rival UK-based regional airlines. British & Commonwealth Holdings-owned British Island Airways (BIA) and Air Anglia were the two dominant merger partners.
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- Instance of
- airline
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- Redhill
- Followed by
- KLM uk
- Follows
- Air Anglia
- Official website
- www.airuk.co.uk
- Image
- Air UK F50.jpg
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- IATA airline designator
- UK
- ICAO airline designator
- UKA
- item operated
- Fokker 50
- Commons category
- AirUK
- inception
- 1980-01-01
- airline hub
- London Stansted Airport
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1998-01-01
- call sign
- UKAY
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21 sectionsContents
- History
- Aircraft operated
- Fleet in 1980
- Fleet in 1983
- Fleet in 1985
- Fleet in 1988
- Fleet in 1990
- Fleet in 1995
- Fleet in 1997
- Third Force
- Retrenchment
- Reorganisation and renewed expansion
- Air UK Leisure
- Focusing on Stansted
- Rebranding
- Further developments
- Incidents and accidents
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Air U.K. Limited, branded as AirUK, was a regional airline in the United Kingdom formed in 1980 as a result of a merger involving four rival UK-based regional airlines. British & Commonwealth Holdings-owned British Island Airways (BIA) and Air Anglia were the two dominant merger partners.
The merged entity's corporate headquarters were originally located at Redhill, the location of the old BIA head office. It subsequently relocated to Crawley. In addition to the main maintenance base at Norwich Airport (Air Anglia's former engineering base), there also used to be a second major maintenance base at Blackpool Airport (the old BIA engineering base). This was closed down following Air UK's major retrenchment during the early 1980s recession.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AirUK” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.