Champagne Airlines 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 Reims

Reims

Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It was established in 1998 and operated air-taxi, executive services and scheduled services. Its main base was Reims Airport (RHE), with hubs at Le Havre Octeville Airport

Le Havre Octeville Airport

Le Havre - Octeville Airport is an airport serving the city of Le Havre in France. The airport is located in Octeville-sur-Mer, north-northwest of Le Havre, both communes in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France....

 and Paris - Le Bourget Airport
Heli-Champagne was sister company for helicopter activity.

In November 2005 authorization to operate air services was withdrawn following bankruptcy.

Code data

• ICAO Code: CPH
• Callsign: Champagne

Destinations

In July 2005 it was clear that the company was in debt and with a serious cash shortage. In October 2005, Champagne Airlines gave up its only scheduled route between Le Havre

Le Havre

Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...

 and Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

. On 29 November 2005 the Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC) withdrew authorization for Champagne Airlines to operate air services following its bankruptcy.

Fleet

The Champagne Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at July 2005) :

• 2 Beechcraft King Air
  Beechcraft King Air
  The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation...
  
   FGIML and FBXON
• 3 Fairchild Metro III
  Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
  The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States....
  
  FGTRB , FGPSN and FGJPN
• 1 cesna citation II FHACA