Vacation Air | Boeing 747-300

Airline - Vacation Air
Aircraft - Boeing 747-300 | G-HSTA
Delivered to Vienna Airlines, 1988
Sold to British International, 1992
Sold to Atlantic Charter, 1999
Leased to MoscAvia, 1999
Returned to Atlantic Charter, 2002
Leased to Kievan Airlines, 2004
Returned to Atlantic Charter, 2008
Stored at Bruntingthorpe, 2008
Sold to Vacation Air, 2010
Livery - Standard 2007
Country - United Kingdom

Founded in 2007, Vacation Air is an LCC operating under the idea that people looking to pay less prioritize capacity (and therefore lower cost per seat) over frequency. This assumption has proved successful for the airline, which began by operating a pair of the cheapest wide-body aircraft they could find at the time - Boeing 747-200Bs - and later expanded with one more -200B, as well as -300s and eventually -400s. With mostly intra-European flights from London Gatwick, Birmingham, and Manchester being operated by these aircraft, the seating configuration is extremely high-density, taking almost full advantage of the 747's exit limit (660 on the 747-300). Seats are also fitted with AVOD entertainment screens at all seats (available for a fee, of course), which are especially popular on the few transatlantic flights Vacation Air does operate.

Due to the low-cost nature of the airline's business model, most aircraft in the fleet fly in an all-Economy configuration, though a few of each time (for example, 747-300s registered G-HSTC/TD) are equipped with a small business class cabin on the upper deck, and these are the aircraft usually utilized on seasonal flights to the Caribbean and America. In addition flights into holiday destinations in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (as well as seasonally to the Caribbean and United States), Vacation Air operates charter flights from and to anywhere in the world.

The airline's branding in bright and colorful, and these colors spill into the interior of the aircraft, where alternating sections of seats are upholstered with either orange or green fabric. All aircraft also wear the names of the most beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean.

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