TUI Airlines Nederland becomes ArkeFly

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 14 Apr 2005, 15:47

Today at an press conference, TUI Nederland announced that next week the flight will start with there own airline. The name of the airline is "ArkeFly" . Arke is the marketing name of TUI Netherlands. The planes will receive the TUI blue livery when they receive major maintance

http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?ID=8088

sab319 · Post by **sab319** » 14 Apr 2005, 16:01

Are they going to acquire some short haul planes too in the future??

C_J · Post by **C_J** » 14 Apr 2005, 20:25

I've read it on "teletext".
There will be some short haul routes so I suppose short haul planes will be added too. The problem is that I can't find an official source for this.

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 14 Apr 2005, 20:30

on the press conference they claimed only to fly with the 4 ex hollandexel planes. That is not weird, martinair use also the 767 for mh routes in the past, and still does.....

themole · Post by **themole** » 14 Apr 2005, 20:47

Limited info can be found at http://www.arkefly.nl or its mirror http://www.arkefly.com.

B744skipper · Post by **B744skipper** » 19 Apr 2005, 10:32

Copy from the other topic:

It's a good thing for the Dutch consumer that there will be another competitor out there, besides Martinair which also flies to long haul leisure destinations. But let's see if this one survives, since Air Holland and the Excel group both failed. They have the TUI group backing them, so I give them a change that they will make it. Maybe in the future we will see them flying to leisure destinations in Europe also.
It could also be a good idea to make on group that will serve the Benelux market for TUI, since there is no big difference anymore between all the TUI airlines. It would save costs in different places (maintenance, operating costs i.e.).

Well, go TUI Airlines Netherlands (but please get rid of the livery

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henkjan99 · Post by **henkjan99** » 03 Jun 2005, 22:52

What's the IATA/ICAO code for ArkeFly?

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 04 Jun 2005, 00:10

henkjan99 wrote:What's the IATA/ICAO code for ArkeFly?

I read that the airline code wold be TFL ( one of the 2, i dont know that for sure...