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Thomson Airways

IATA Code
BY
ICAO Code
TOM
Corporate Address
Wigmore House, Wigmore Place, Wigmore Lane,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2 9TN,
UK
Website
http://www.thomsonfly.com
Country
United Kingdom
Business model
Charter
Association Membership
IACA

A subsidiary of international travel company TUI Travel, Thomson Airways was formed out of the 2007 merger of First Choice Airways and Thomsonfly. Headquartered in Luton, Thomson Airways is one of the largest carriers in the UK, with aircraft based at 21 airports, although London Gatwick and Manchester airports represent the largest bases. Thomson Airways offers both scheduled and charter service to destinations in North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Africa, operating many services on behalf of UK tour operators such as parent TUI Travel, Portland, Skytours and Crystal.


 
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Emirates and Lufthansa growing strongly this summer: World's biggest airlines rankings for August

11-Aug-11 4:17 PM

Lufthansa and Emirates are the fastest growing carriers of the global top ten, increasing their capacity (ASKs) by 12.4% and 8.1% year-on-year, respectively. Delta remains the world's leading carrier by this measure, followed by American Airlines and United Airlines. Combined, United-Continental is roughly 3.3% bigger than Delta by systemwide ASKs.

LCCs and unaligned carriers take greater share of global aviation again in August 2011

11-Aug-11 3:28 PM

The world's low-cost carriers (LCC) and airlines not part of the global alliances have taken market share away from the leading global groupings again this month, continuing a theme of recent months. Over the past 12 months, LCCs have increased their share of global aviation (in terms of seats per week) from 22.9% in Aug-2010 to 23.8% in Aug-2011, while the un-aligned carriers have risen from 27.6% to 28.8%. Over the same period, Star Alliance's share has fallen 0.9 ppts to 23.1%, while oneworld has lost 0.8 ppts to 10.2%. SkyTeam has seen its share drop 0.3% to 14.1%, according to Innovata schedule data.

Global LCC rankings: Jun-2011. Unaligned carriers and LCCs gain greater share of global aviation

5-Jul-11 1:35 PM

The world's low-cost carriers (LCC) and airlines not part of the global alliances have taken market share away from the leading global groupings this month. Over the past 12 months, LCCs have increased their share of global aviation (in terms of seats per week) from 23.1% to 23.8%, while the un-aligned carriers have risen from 27.3% to 29%. Over the same period, Star Alliance's share has fallen 1.1 ppts to 23%, while oneworld has lost 0.9 ppts to 10.2%. SkyTeam, which has added China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines to the fold lately, has seen its share drop just 0.4% to 14%.

Global LCC Rankings: Jun-2011. Jetstar's capacity surge drives it into world's Top 10

6-Jun-11 5:00 PM

Southwest remains the world's largest LCC in Jun-2011, though Ryanair is progressively closing the gap, with another 20%+ surge in capacity this month. There was no change in the Top 10, with the exception of Jetstar which moved into tenth position with a 20.5% year-on-year surge in capacity. In doing so it relegated Virgin Australia out of the top flight. Virgin's 6.3% reduction in ASKs dropped it down three positions to 13th largest.

Global LCC Rankings: May-2011. Mexico's Volaris and India's SpiceJet break into the top LCC grouping

16-May-11 10:55 AM

Mexico's Volaris has chalked up the strongest capacity growth of the leading worldwide low-cost carriers (LCCs) this month, with a jaw-dropping 50.5% increase in capacity (ASKs), according to Innovata. The carrier has surged into the Top 25 listing, along with Indian LCC, SpiceJet,which is expanding its capacity by 31.6% year-on-year in May-2011.

Southwest still world's biggest LCC, IndiGo the fastest growing: Low-cost carrier rankings

4-Apr-11 12:50 PM

The world's low-cost carriers (LCC) are a force to be reckoned with, commanding a 23.1% share of weekly seats worldwide, up from 22.6% this time last year. The world's biggest LCC is the grand-daddy of the sector, Southwest Airlines, growing its capacity this month by a spritely 9.4% year-on-year. Next biggest is Ryanair, which is now roughly 70% the size of Southwest, based on seats per week, and growing its capacity by a jaw-dropping 22.9% this month.

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