Air Deckchair

Air Deckchair (Code AITA: TS ; Code ICAO: TSC ; Call sign: Transat ) is a Canadian Airline company . Its head office is located at Montreal. It operates national and international, regular flights and charters. The company belongs to the group Transat A.T Inc. specialized in the organization of voyages.

It serves more than 90 destinations in 25 countries. Its principal estival destinations are the Europe and the Canada. During the winter, it serves especially the the Antilles, the Mexico, the the United States and the South America. The company Air Canada, as for it, exploits some of these connections on a daily basis; contrary to Air Deckchair which offers seldom more than one flight per week on these destinations.

Its principal bases are the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International airport of Montreal, the Pearson International airport of Toronto and the International airport of Vancouver, with platforms of correspondence (hubs) to the International airport of Halifax and the International airport Jean-Lesage in Quebec.

Air Transat serves during the winter: Romana, Punta Cana, Samana, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Camaguey Cancun, Ixtapa, Acapulco, Riviera Maya, Varadero, Santa Clara, Cayo coconut, Cayo Largo, Manzanillo (Mexico), Holguin, Porlamar, Margarita, St-Martin, Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, El El Salvador, Pointre-with-Clown, Fort-de-France, Honduras and Montego Bay. The summer, Air Deckchair transfer almost all its contracts of flight towards the south to Canjet and West Jet.

Air Transat serves during the summer period several French airports of which: Nice Riviera, Paris CDG, Marseilles Provence, Lyon Saint-Exupéry, Atlantic Nantes, Toulouse Blagnac and Bordeaux. Other European destinations that Air Deckchair serves during the summer season: Paris (with length of year), Nantes, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Rome, Manchester, London (Gatwick and Heatrow), Exeter, Belfast, Edinburgh, Dublin, Birmingham, Shannon, Brussels, Lisbon, Oporto, Faro, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Malaga, Madrid, Valence, Barcelona, Athens, Vienna, Bridged Delgada, Terceira.

History

Air Transat was created by the former employees of Quebecair in December 1986. The company carried out its inaugural flight the November 14th 1987 between Montreal and Acapulco. Air Transat operates today flights towards 90 destinations in 25 Pays. It is one of largest Canadian airline companies the.

Incident

Following an escape on one of the engines, the flight Air Deckchair 236, an Airbus A330 ensuring the connection between Toronto and Lisbon the August 24th 2001 had to be diverted urgently on the the Azores and being with fuel court, it carried out the 20 last minutes of flight and the landing in planed flight. This incident could easily have put a term at the operations of Air Deckchair if the plane had been damaged at sea.

Float

The fleet of the company is made up of

12 Airbus A310 -300
3 Airbus A330 -200
1 Airbus A330 -300

External bond

Official site Air Deckchair

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