Thomsonfly

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Thomsonfly Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it became part of TUI Travel PLC. The new holiday company continued with both in-house airlines (Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways) through winter 2007 and summer 2008 until the two were merged on 1 November 2008 as Thomson Airways.

Thomsonfly Limited held a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.<ref>CAA operating licence</ref>

HistoryEdit

As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Thomsonfly Limited changed its name to Thomson Airways in October 2008.<ref>New Thomson Airways brand launched Template:Webarchive</ref>

FleetEdit

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A Thomsonfly Boeing 757-200 landing at Bristol Airport, England (2007)

In October 2008, Thomsonfly operated an all-Boeing fleet composed of the following aircraft:<ref>CAA Aircraft Register</ref>

**Thomsonfly fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers<ref>Thomsonfly Fleet</ref>	Routes
Boeing 737-300	11	148	Short and medium haul
Boeing 737-500	4	131	Short haul
Boeing 737-800	16	189	Short and medium haul
Boeing 757-200	20	235	Short and medium haul
Boeing 767-200ER	4	290	Short, medium and long haul
Boeing 767-300ER	9	283/328	Short, medium and long haul
Total	64

StatisticsEdit


	Number of passengers<ref name="stats">Number of passengers uplifted on both scheduled and non-scheduled flights.</ref>	Number of flights<ref>Number of flights represents total flights during that year.</ref>	Load factor<ref>Load factor represents number of seat-km used as a proportion of number of seat-km available.</ref>
2005	9,505,928	52,461	80.1%
2006	9,617,416	54,063	82.6%
2007	9,444,973	54,515	84.6%
^{Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority [1]}

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