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.

Spanair

IATA JK ICAO JKK Callsign SPANAIR
Founded	December 1986 (1986-12)
Commenced operations	March 1988 (1988-03)
Ceased operations	27 January 2012 (2012-01-27)
Hubs	Barcelona
Focus cities	Madrid Palma de Mallorca Tenerife–North
Frequent-flyer program	Spanair Star
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
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.

Spanair Media

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  Spanair MD-83 in the former livery at Leeds Bradford Airport in 2008

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  Spanair head office in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona

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  Spanair Airbus A320-200 in Star Alliance livery

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  Spanair Airbus A320-200 in a hybrid livery with old titles and new tailfin design

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  Spanair Airbus A320-200 in the final full livery which was only applied to a few aircraft