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Caledonian Airways was a Scotland international airline formed in 1961, initially using
Douglas DC-7s. It was founded by John de la Haye and Adam Thomson, and initially was a successful charter operation.
In November
1970, the airline bought and merged with British United Airways. After two years, having used the interim name "Caledonian//BUA", the airline was renamed British Caledonian. British Caledonian became Europe's largest independent airline, with an extensive global route network.
Accidents and incidents
A
DC-7 (Registration G-ARUD) crashed on
4 March 1962 at Douala, Cameroon. Caledonian Flight 153 crashed on take-off into a swamp and 101 passengers and 10 crew died. The cause was jammed right elevator spring tab which caused the aircraft to fail to climb. This is the only fatal incident in the airline's history.
Second incarnation
British Airways took over British Caledonian in the late 1980s and created an airline from both its
British Airtours charters subsidiary and the
BCal Charter subsidiary, and this airline was once again called Caledonian Airways.
Through the 1990s, the British charter airline market underwent significant price driven consolidation. The airlines flying older types almost all went under or were absorbed. Caledonian was in a strong position, it had newer types (including brand new A320s,A321s and relatively modern
wide-body aircraft including
DC-10-30s,B747-200s and Lockheed L-1011).
This subsidiary was finally sold by British Airways to the Carlson Group which rebranded the airline simply as 'Caledonian',
ICAO airline designator: CKT. The blue and gold colour scheme of the aircraft remained the same. The airline became part of the JMC group (along with Flying_Colours_(airline)) in the late 1990s, which resulted in the aircraft forming part of the new
JMC Air fleet in 27 March 2000. The Caledonian name and colours were lost to the new bright green colours of JMC. JMC Air changed name again for the summer season of
2002 to Thomas Cook Airlines. Thomas Cook retired the former Caledonian DC-10-30s that were in their fleet, replacing them with Airbus A330-200s. Thomas Cook Airlines still operates some of the newer Airbus A320s that were delivered to Caledonian shortly before their takeover by the JMC group.
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Caledonian Airways was a Scotland international airline formed in 1961, initially using
Douglas DC-7s. It was founded by John de la Haye and Adam Thomson, and initially was a successful charter operation.
In November
1970, the airline bought and merged with
British United Airways. After two years, having used the interim name "Caledonian//BUA", the airline was renamed
British Caledonian. British Caledonian became Europe's largest independent airline, with an extensive global route network.
Accidents and incidents
A DC-7 (Registration G-ARUD) crashed on
4 March 1962 at Douala, Cameroon.
Caledonian Flight 153 crashed on take-off into a swamp and 101 passengers and 10 crew died. The cause was jammed right elevator spring tab which caused the aircraft to fail to climb. This is the only fatal incident in the airline's history.
Second incarnation
British Airways took over
British Caledonian in the late
1980s and created an airline from both its
British Airtours charters subsidiary and the
BCal Charter subsidiary, and this airline was once again called Caledonian Airways.
Through the
1990s, the British charter airline market underwent significant price driven consolidation. The airlines flying older types almost all went under or were absorbed. Caledonian was in a strong position, it had newer types (including brand new A320s,A321s and relatively modern wide-body aircraft including DC-10-30s,
B747-200s and Lockheed L-1011).
This subsidiary was finally sold by British Airways to the
Carlson Group which rebranded the airline simply as 'Caledonian',
ICAO airline designator: CKT. The blue and gold colour scheme of the aircraft remained the same. The airline became part of the
JMC group (along with Flying_Colours_(airline)) in the late
1990s, which resulted in the aircraft forming part of the new
JMC Air fleet in 27 March 2000. The Caledonian name and colours were lost to the new bright green colours of JMC. JMC Air changed name again for the summer season of
2002 to
Thomas Cook Airlines. Thomas Cook retired the former Caledonian DC-10-30s that were in their fleet, replacing them with Airbus A330-200s. Thomas Cook Airlines still operates some of the newer
Airbus A320s that were delivered to Caledonian shortly before their takeover by the JMC group.
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