AirClass Airways was an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...

, Canary Islands

Canary Islands

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, Spain

Spain

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. It operated passenger services from Spain, as well as charters and wet lease

Wet lease

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 services. Its main base was Gran Canaria International Airport

Gran Canaria International Airport

Gran Canaria Airport , , , is the fifth busiest airport in Spain. It is an airport located on Gran Canaria Island...

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History

The airline started operations in February 2003. It was founded by Canaria Travel as a sister company to the airline Travel Service

Travel Service (Czech Republic)

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 under the name Visig Operaciones Aéreas. Operations started with a Boeing 737-800

Boeing 737

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 transferred from Travel Service. Visig was closed down in 2005 and in November 2005 the company was acquired by Spanish investment group Airclass and reorganised by Futura International Airways

Futura International Airways

Futura International Airways was an airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It operated scheduled services and charter flights for tour operators and other airlines, in Europe, as well as wet lease and ad hoc charters...

. In May 2006 the company was rebranded as AirClass Airways. It is wholly owned by Airclass and has 48 employees. Both aircraft are usually flying for other carriers such as Binter Canarias

Binter Canarias

Binter Canarias S.A. is an airline based in Gran Canaria, Spain. It is a regional carrier operating inter-island services within the Canary Islands, in addition to services to Morocco, and Portugal. The airline carried 2.9 million passengers in 2008...

, Solomon Airlines

Solomon Airlines

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 or Air Slovakia

Air Slovakia

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Fleet

The AirClass Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at February 2008):

• 1 Boeing 737-300