Binter Canarias
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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. Binter Canarias received Europe's best regional airline 2005 and, on September 24, 2010, it was announced that Binter Canarias had won the European Regions Airline Association
(ERA) Gold Award: Airline of the Year for 2010/2011.
Members of the Board:
Others:
and is currently the only one to operate in the eight airports of the Canaries. Binter also operates connections with Marrakech
, Aaiun and Madeira
. Binter has sales offices, Binter Vende, at the airports and, since 2005, the ground support service has been provided by Atlántica Handling. Since January 2008 the Technical assistance service for Binter aircraft has been provided by BinterTechnic.
. In late 1999 SEPI (the Spanish state holding company of Iberia) implemented the privatisation of Binter Canarias, but held on to a "golden share", permitting it to authorise any future shareholding deal of more than 25%. However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002. It is now owned by Ilsamar Tenerife (49.81%), Ferma Canarias Electrica (10.44%), Agencia Maritima Afroamericana (10.11%), Flapa (10%) and others (19.6%) and has 406 employees.
Some of the owners of Binter Canarias decided to buy Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA)
and to transfer some planes from Binter to NAYSA
in order to reduce costs and increase benefits.
regional airliner
s as of March 2010, with a single economy class
.http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=NT&al_op=1:
As of 13 March 2010, the average age of the Binter Canarias fleet is 6.0 years (http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Binter%20Canarias.htm).
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 Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. It is a regional carrier operating inter-island services within the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
, in addition to services to Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, and Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. The airline carried 2.9 million passengers in 2008. Binter Canarias received Europe's best regional airline 2005 and, on September 24, 2010, it was announced that Binter Canarias had won the European Regions Airline Association
European Regions Airline Association
Founded in 1980, European Regions Airline Association, ERA, is a non-profit trade association representing almost 200 companies involved in European air transport, including airlines, airframe and engine manufacturers, airports, suppliers and service providers from all over Europe.The Association...
(ERA) Gold Award: Airline of the Year for 2010/2011.
Head Office
- Pedro Agustín del Castillo Machado - President and Chief Executive OfficerChief executive officerA chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
- Rodolfo Nuñez Ruano - Vice President / Executive OfficerExecutive officerAn executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...
- Alfredo Morales Martín - Executive Officer
Members of the Board:
- Fernando del Castillo y Benítez de Lugo
- Miguel Escudero del Castillo
- Gilberto Morales Martín
- Rafael Plañol Lacalle
- Juan Miguel Sanjuan Jover
- Antonio Germán Suárez Domínguez
- Carlos Plasencia Romero
- Juan Luis Lorenzo Rodríguez
- José Enrique Núñez Ruano
- Carlos Cabrera Padrón - Secretary of the Board
Others:
- Jesús Santana Jubells - Director of Development and Strategy
- José Antonio Carrillo Romero - Operations Manager
- Anselmo Palacios Sánchez - Director of Finance Department
- Jose Luis Reina Delgado - Director of Communications and Public Relations and Director of Binter Centres in TenerifeTenerifeTenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
- Mª Eugenia Pérez Fernández De Burgos - Director of Human Resources
- Agustín Castillo Irazoqui - Director of Security
- Juan Manuel Pérez López - Director of Production
- Javier Delgado Patricio - Department of Information and Technology Systems
- Francisco de Borja Areilza Molet - Purchasing Director
Operations
BinterCanarias began as a regional airlineRegional airline
Regional airlines are airlines that operate regional aircraft to provide passenger air service to communities without sufficient demand to attract mainline service...
and is currently the only one to operate in the eight airports of the Canaries. Binter also operates connections with Marrakech
Marrakech
Marrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Ochre city", is the most important former imperial city in Morocco's history...
, Aaiun and Madeira
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...
. Binter has sales offices, Binter Vende, at the airports and, since 2005, the ground support service has been provided by Atlántica Handling. Since January 2008 the Technical assistance service for Binter aircraft has been provided by BinterTechnic.
History
The airline was established on 18 February 1988 and started operations on 26 March 1989. It was formed as a subsidiary of IberiaIberia Airlines
Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A., commonly known as Iberia, is the flag carrier airline of Spain. Based in Madrid, it operates an international network of services from its main bases of Madrid-Barajas Airport and Barcelona El Prat Airport....
. In late 1999 SEPI (the Spanish state holding company of Iberia) implemented the privatisation of Binter Canarias, but held on to a "golden share", permitting it to authorise any future shareholding deal of more than 25%. However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002. It is now owned by Ilsamar Tenerife (49.81%), Ferma Canarias Electrica (10.44%), Agencia Maritima Afroamericana (10.11%), Flapa (10%) and others (19.6%) and has 406 employees.
Some of the owners of Binter Canarias decided to buy Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA)
Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA)
Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios, better known by its initialism NAYSA, is an regional airline based in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. It operates scheduled and charter flights, as well as cargo flights, air taxis, air ambulance flights and crew transfers...
and to transfer some planes from Binter to NAYSA
Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA)
Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios, better known by its initialism NAYSA, is an regional airline based in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. It operates scheduled and charter flights, as well as cargo flights, air taxis, air ambulance flights and crew transfers...
in order to reduce costs and increase benefits.
Destinations
Binter Canarias operates the following services (as of July 2010)| List of Destinations | ||
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| Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... |
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| Madeira Madeira Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union... |
Madeira Airport Madeira Airport -Incidents and accidents:*On 5 March 1973, an Aviaco Sud Caravelle 10R crashed into the sea during approach, losing the aircraft and three crew.... |
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| Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
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| El Hierro El Hierro El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano , is the smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands , in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a population of 10,162 .- Name :The name El Hierro, although phonetically identical to the Spanish word for 'iron', is generally thought... |
El Hierro Airport El Hierro Airport -External links:* - * -... |
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| Fuerteventura Fuerteventura Fuerteventura , a Spanish island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It is situated at 28°20' north, 14°00' west. At 1,660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife... |
Fuerteventura Airport | |
| Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago... |
Gran Canaria Airport Hub | |
| La Gomera La Gomera La Gomera is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. In area, it is the second-smallest of the seven main islands of this group.- Political organization :... |
La Gomera Airport La Gomera Airport La Gomera Airport is an airport located near the village of Alajeró, Spain, southwest by road from the Gomera island's capital city, San Sebastián de la Gomera.... |
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| La Palma La Palma La Palma is the most north-westerly of the Canary Islands. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands... |
La Palma Airport La Palma Airport La Palma Airport is an airport located in Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo, south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It is operated by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, who operate the vast majority of civil airports in Spain... Hub |
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| Lanzarote Lanzarote Lanzarote , a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.9 km2, it stands as the fourth largest of the islands... |
Lanzarote Airport | |
| Tenerife Tenerife Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the... |
Tenerife North Airport Hub Tenerife South Airport Tenerife South Airport Tenerife South Airport , previously known as Tenerife South-Reina Sofia Airport, is one of two international airports located on the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands . Between its opening and the end of 2006, a total of 173,912,207 passengers passed through the airport... |
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| Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara... |
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| El Aaiún El Aaiún El-Aaiún , is a city in Western Sahara founded by the Spanish in 1928. Administered by Morocco since 1976, El-Aaiún is the capital of what the Moroccan government call the region of Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, and POLISARIO call Occupied Territories... |
Hassan I Airport | |
| Marrakech Marrakech Marrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Ochre city", is the most important former imperial city in Morocco's history... |
Marrakech-Menara Airport | |
| Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest... |
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| Nouadhibou Nouadhibou Nouadhibou is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as a major commercial centre. The city itself has about 75,000 inhabitants expanding to over 90,000 in the larger metropolitan area. It is situated on a 40-mile peninsula or headland called Ras Nouadhibou, Cap Blanc, or Cabo Blanco, of... |
Nouadhibou Airport Seasonal | |
| Nouakchott Nouakchott -Government:The town was first divided into districts in 1973. First it was divided into four. From 1986, the city has been split into nine districts.* Arafat* Dar Naim* El Mina* Ksar* Riad* Sebkha* Tevragh-Zeina* Teyarett* Toujounine... |
Nouakchott Airport Seasonal | |
Fleet
Binter Canarias began operations with a fleet of four CN-235, which operations began ceased operating on the islands in 1997, and from 1995 to 1998 leased three DC-9s from Iberia. Binter Canarias currently operates 21 narrow-bodyNarrow-body aircraft
A narrow-body aircraft is an airliner with a fuselage aircraft cabin width typically of 3 to 4 metres , and airline seat arranged 2 to 6 abreast along a single aisle...
regional airliner
Regional airliner
A regional airliner or a feederliner is a small airliner designed to fly up to 100 passengers on short-haul flights, usually feeding larger carriers' hubs from small markets. This class of airliners are typically flown by the regional airlines that are either contracted by or subsidiaries of the...
s as of March 2010, with a single economy class
Economy class
__FORCETOC__Economy class, also called coach class , steerage, or standard class, is the lowest class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel....
.http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=NT&al_op=1:
| Aircraft | In Service |
Orders | Passengers (Economy) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATR 72-201 ATR 72 The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop short-haul regional airliner built by the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR. ATR and Airbus are both built in Toulouse, and share resources and technology... |
3 | 0 | 68 or 70 | All operated by NAYSA Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA) Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios, better known by its initialism NAYSA, is an regional airline based in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. It operates scheduled and charter flights, as well as cargo flights, air taxis, air ambulance flights and crew transfers... |
| ATR 72-500 ATR 72 The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop short-haul regional airliner built by the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR. ATR and Airbus are both built in Toulouse, and share resources and technology... |
18 | 0 | 72 | 8 operated by NAYSA |
| Total | 21 | 0 |
As of 13 March 2010, the average age of the Binter Canarias fleet is 6.0 years (http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Binter%20Canarias.htm).