Binter Canarias

Binter Canarias
IATA ICAO Callsign
NT IBB BINTER
Founded 1989
Hubs
Frequent-flyer program Bintermás
Fleet size 20 (operated for Canair and Naysa)
Destinations 21
Headquarters Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain
Key people Pedro Agustín del Castillo Machado (CEO)
Website www.bintercanarias.com
NAYSA owned ATR 72-202 flown as Binter Canarias

Binter Canarias S.A. is an airline based in Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain. It is a regional air carrier operating inter-island services within the Canary Islands, in addition to services to Morocco, Portugal and Western Sahara.

The airline was named Europe's best regional airline in 2005 and, in September 2010, it was announced that the Spanish carrier had won the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) Gold Award for the best Airline of the Year 2010/2011.[1][2]

History

The airline was established on 18 February 1988 and started operations on 26 March 1989. It was formed as a subsidiary of Iberia. In late 1999 SEPI (the Spanish state holding company of Iberia) implemented the privatisation of Binter Canarias, but held on to a "golden share", permitting it to authorise any future shareholding deal of more than 25%. However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002. In 2003 Binter Canarias, SAU was absorbed by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, SA, which took the name of Binter Canarias, SA. It is now owned by Ilsamar Tenerife (49.81%), Ferma Canarias Electrica (10.44%), Agencia Maritima Afroamericana (10.11%), Flapa (10%) and others (19.6%) and has 406 employees.

Some of the owners of Binter Canarias decided to buy Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA) and to transfer some planes from Binter to NAYSA in order to reduce costs and increase benefits. Then Canarias Airlines was created with the same purpose. Binter Canarias now owns only six planes and operates quite few of the flights traded with its name.

Organisation

The company is headquartered in the Airport of Gran Canaria, in the town of Telde.

Head Office[3]

Members of the Board:

Others:

Operations

BinterCanarias began operations as a regional airline and is currently the only one to operate in the eight airports of the Canaries. Binter also operates connections with Marrakech, Aaiun and Madeira.[4] Binter has sales offices, Binter Vende, at the airports and, since 2005, the ground support service has been provided by Atlántica Handling. Since January 2008 the Technical assistance service for Binter aircraft has been provided by BinterTechnic.[5]

The airline also flies to the island of Madeira, serving the capital Funchal. Regular flights to the cities of Bergamo and Paris, were trialled but later cancelled as unsuccessful projects. Nowadays has regular flights to Lisbon and Cape Verde for renting technical crew and aircraft (CRJ) to Air Nostrum. The airline also serves Africa: it operates scheduled flights to Marrakech and Casablanca in Morocco and Laayoune in Western Sahara, alongside charter flights to Nouadibou and Nouakchott in Mauritania.

Most flights traded as Binter Canarias are Naysa or Canarias Airlines flights, which have franchise agreements with Binter Canarias but stay completely independent companies. Almost all of its flights are operated under franchise by Air Navigation Services Canarios, Canary Airlines and Air Nostrum Mediterranean Airlines, except for a minority that are operated directly by Binter.

Destinations

Binter Canarias operates the following services (as of January 2014):

List of Destinations
City Airport
Cape Verde
Praia Praia Airport
Sal Sal Airport
Portugal
Madeira Madeira Airport
Lisbon Lisbon Airport
Ponta Delgada João Paulo II Airport
Spain
El Hierro El Hierro Airport
Fuerteventura Fuerteventura Airport
Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Airport Hub
La Gomera La Gomera Airport
La Palma La Palma Airport
Lanzarote Lanzarote Airport
Tenerife Tenerife North Airport Hub
Tenerife South Airport
Morocco
Agadir Al Massira Airport
Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport
Marrakech Marrakech-Menara Airport
Senegal
Dakar Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
The Gambia
Banjul Banjul International Airport
Western Sahara
El Aaiún Hassan I Airport

Fleet

Binter Canarias ATR-72 landing at Tenerife-North Airport
Both Binters originally flew the CN235.

Binter Canarias began operations with a fleet of 4 CN-235, which ceased operating on the islands in 1997,[6] and from 1995 to 1998 leased 3 DC-9s from Iberia. Its fleet has been reduced in recent years to a single ATR 72 500 series (EC-JQL). Formerly Naysa only performed the low density routes to La Gomera and El Hierro using 2 Beechcraft 1900 D aircraft. The franchisee has since been providing an increasing number of Binter operations, enabled through the acquisition of 3 ATR 72(EC-GQF, EC-GRP, EC-GRU), which were transferred in 2007 from Binter, and eight ATR 72 with registration EC-KGI, EC-KGJ, EC-KRY, EC-KSG, EC-KYI, EC-LAD, EC and EC-LFA-LGF.

As of October 2015 Binter Canarias operates the following aircraft:[7]
Binter Canarias Fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes
ATR 72-500 16 0 72
ATR 72-600 2 10[8] 72
Bombardier CRJ900LR 2 0 90 Leased from Air Nostrum
Total 20 10
The average age of the Binter Canarias fleet is 7.9 years.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.europelowcost.co.uk/airlines/binter-canarias.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.eraa.org/about/awards-a-honours
  3. ↑ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
  4. ↑ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
  5. ↑ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
  6. ↑ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
  7. 1 2 "Binter Canarias Fleet Details and History". Planespotters.net. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Binter announces repeat order for additional six 72-600s". ATR Aircraft. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

BINTER CANARIAS FLEET

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