Spanair

Spanair was an airline based in Catalonia which is in Spain. It's main base of operations or hub is at Barcelona Airport but it also flew many flights from Madrid Airport and Palma de Mallorca Airport. The airline was a member of the major airline alliance Star Alliance. Spanair stopped its flight operations the 27th of January, 2012, when its closure was announced.^[1]

Spanair

IATA ICAO Callsign JK JKK SPANAIR
Founded	December 1986; 38 years ago (1986-12)
Commenced operations	March 1988; 37 years ago (1988-03)
Ceased operations	27 January 2012; 13 years ago (2012-01-27)
Hubs	Barcelona
Focus cities	Madrid Palma de Mallorca Tenerife–North
Frequent-flyer program	Spanair Star[2]
Alliance	Star Alliance (2003–2012)
Fleet size	29
Destinations	40
Parent company	Consortium of Investors (led by Consorci de Turisme de Barcelona and Catalana d'Iniciatives) (80.1%) iberiojet (19.9%)
Headquarters	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Key people	Mike Szücs, CEO[3]
Website	spanair.com

A Spanair Boeing 767 in 1999.

Destinations

Spanair flew mainly to destinations in Europe with only a very limited number of flights to the north of Africa. They also had charter flights for holiday companies.

Fleet

This is a summary of the Spanair fleet:

• 19x Airbus A320
• 5x Airbus A321
• 4x Boeing 717
• 2x McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• 5x McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• 8x McDonnell Douglas MD-87

The entire fleet was sold to different airlines in 2012.