MARTINAIR

'Martinair' is an airline based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It operates passenger and cargo services to over 50 destinations worldwide, of which more than 20 are in the Mediterranean area. Services are largely on a scheduled basis, but charter and air taxi services are also operated. Its main base is Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, with hubs at Hong Kong International Airport and Miami International Airport.^[1]
Martinair occasionally flies certain flights instead of KLM. Martinair also flies some destinations full time with KLM code. The airline has hubs at Sharjah International Airport and Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Contents

History

Incidents and accidents

Subsidiaries

Destinations

Cargo

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was founded on May 24, 1958 as Martin's Air Charter (MAC), by J. Martin Schröder, with one plane and 5 employees. In 1963 Mr. Schröder sold 49% of the company to four equal shipping company shareholders (12.25% each, Nedlloyd would wind up one of them). KLM would later purchase the 50+% that Mr. Schröder owned, buying him out. The name was changed to Martinair Holland, from MAC in 1966. A healthy boost came in 1967 with the opening of business to the United States. Martinair becomes all jet-powered in 1971.
In 1991, the first aircraft with the ''"Martinair Cargo"'' name was introduced, and the ''"Holland"'' was dropped from all aircraft. In 1996, Martinair bought a 40% stake in Colombian cargo carrier TAMPA Cargo, based in Medellín. Martinair President & CEO Martin Schröder retired from day-to-day activities with the company in 1998. Also that year, the European Commission in Brussels refused KLM's offer to purchase Nedlloyd's shares, which would have made KLM the sole-owner. In 2003 the company increased its stake in TAMPA Cargo to 58%, becoming Tampa's majority shareholder.
On June 22, 2007, Martinair became fully-owned by KLM (100%).
An announcement was also made public that Martinair will drop its European destinations beginning November 1, 2007 and will strengthen its grip on cargo activities and intercontinental flights.

Incidents and accidents

★ Tragedy struck when a Martinair DC-8 on landing approach to Colombo, Sri Lanka flew into the side of a mountain on 4 December 1974, killing 184 Indonesian passengers and 7 Dutch crew members.

★ The company's second crash occurred at Faro Portugal when a DC10 crashed 21 December 1992, killing 56 people (including 2 crew members), out of 340 people on board .(see: Martinair MP 495)

Subsidiaries

★ Martinair Flying School

★ Martinair Food (Marfo - airline meal service provider)

★ Martinair Partyservice (special events catering services)

★ Martinair Promotions (hostess product demonstrations/greeting @ seminars, conferences, business events, expositions, & VIP receptions)

★ Skyjob (temporary employment agency, flying courses, occupational health & safety services, promotional activities).

Destinations

Martinair also operates charter flights inside Europe with single class Airbus A320 aircraft, (''European operations will end from October 2007'') and in peak times converts one or two of its McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft to carry extra passengers. The largest scheduled block of flights is Martinair's freight operation. It utilises MD-11 and Boeing 747 aircraft operating scheduled freight flights worldwide.

Cargo

Martinair Cargo have extensive operations in amost all parts of the world, they fly 747F and MD-11F to dewstinations in Asia, Europe, North and South America as well as Australia.

Fleet

As off August 2007, the Martinair fleet includes the following aircraft ^[2] :

★ 4 Airbus A320-200 (At the end of October Martinair will cease European flights. The Airbus planes will probably be sold.)

★ 2 Boeing 747-200C

★ 1 Boeing 747-200F

★ 2 Boeing 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter)

★ 6 Boeing 767-300ER

★ 4 McDonnell Douglas MD-11CF

★ 3 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
Martinair average fleet age is 12.2 years old in June 2006.^[3]

★ From November 2006 the first of four Boeing 747-400 BCF's (Boeing Converted Freighter) will be introduced to gradually replace the existing Jumbo's. Delivery of the third and fourth aircraft are in October 2007 and February 2008.

External links

★ Martinair

★ Martinair Cargo

★ Martinair Fleet

★ Martinair Flying School

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. ''"Martinair @ CH-Aviation"''
3. Martinair Fleet Age