Air Azur

Air Azur Press Release: Mar 11, 1985

Greetings,

We are proud to welcome you to France's newest airline: Air Azur! Our name comes from the Cote d'Azur, better known in English as the French Riviera, where our home base of Nice, France is located. Our goal is to create a comfortable airline & bring the world to our lovely region, not to mention connect the people of Southern France to other magnificent parts of the world.

We have opened a hub in Nice in order to facilitate our travellers to connect to other destinations, specifically our other holiday destinations along the Mediterranean Coast. This morning, our maiden flight from Nice departed to Cologne, Germany with 100% capacity & 100% customer satisfaction. Later today, it will bring customers back to lovely Nice, where the majority of our travellers will set up base camp for a vacation in the French Riviera, the nearby Alps, or perhaps lovely Monaco. Some of our passengers may opt for a connection to Marseille or Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. No matter where you go or why or why you go there, our goal is to treat our customers with the utmost hospitality & comfort during their voyage.

Our startup fleet consists of one ATR-42-300 turboprop plane, but we already have a Boeing 737-300 on order. Our startup destinations are listed below. We have several more planned for the near future. We look forward to seeing you fly with us!

List of destinations served from our hub at Nice:
Cologne, Germany (14x Weekly)
Aarhus, Denmark (6x Weekly)
Marseille, France (10x Weekly)
Ajaccio, France (5x Weekly)

Our fleet:
1 ATR-42-300

Air Azur Press Release: Feb 11, 1987

Greetings,
Air Azur has come a long way in the last two years. We have become the 22nd largest airline in the world based on total valuation & we are proud to serve a total of 109 destinations and counting worldwide. Only 11 airlines worldwide fly to more places than Air Azur.

While our growth has been far more accelerated than expected, we have never strayed from our initial goal, which was to provide top-notch service to our customers. Our growth has slowed to a more manageable pace and we are focusing on opening up new routes to where our customers want most to travel. Several of our newest routes connect the French Riviera to the Americas. Air Azur is now proud to serve a total of 14 destinations in North & South America with more planned within the next few months.

Air Azur is also please to announce that it has joined the Diamond Alliance. Diamond Alliance is the 4th largest airline alliance in the world in passengers carried, members, hubs, & total valuations. The combined destinations served by Diamond is a whopping 379 spanning all continents of the globe. Air Azur has connections with 4 of the other 7 members at Shanghai, Hong Kong, Atlanta, & Orlando. This alliance has provided new markets for travelers from Southern France as well as an influx of tourists flocking to the warm beaches of the French Riviera...

We will continue to gauge customer feedback to provide new routes & improvements to our service levels. We are determined to be a world-class airline & to serve the French Riviera & beyond. All of our wonderful destinations & the aircraft in our fleet are listed below. We look forward to seeing you fly with us soon!

List of destinations served by Air Azur from our new state-of-the-art terminal in Nice, France:

Europe:
Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle, France
Marseille, France
Ajaccio, France (also served from Paris-CDG)
Perpignan, France
Biarritz, France
Bordeaux, France
Nantes, France
Brest, France
Rennes, France
Lille, France
Lyon-St. Euxpery, France
Strasbourg, France
London, England (also served from Paris-CDG, Marseille, & Lille)
Manchester, England
Cardiff, Wales
Glasgow, Scotland (also served from Lille)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Lisbon, Portugal
Barcelona, Spain
Girona, Spain
Valencia, Spain
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Menorca, Spain
Ibiza, Spain (also served from Perpignan)
Las Palmas, Spain
Tenerife North, Spain
Tenerife South, Spain
Milan-Malpensa, Italy
Rome-Fiumicino, Italy
Genoa, Italy (also served from Paris-CDG)
Verona, Italy
Venice, Italy
Treviso, Italy
Bologna, Italy
Pisa, Italy
Naples, Italy
Catania, Italy
Palermo, Italy
Cagliari, Italy
Malta, Malta
Zurich, Switzerland
Bern, Switzerland
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Munich, Germany
Frankfurt-Hahn, Germany
Berline-Tegel, Germany
Cologne/Bonn, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Dusseldorf, Germany
Dresden, Germany
Bremen, Germany
Leipzig/Halle, Germany
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Liege, Belgium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam, Netherlands (also served from Lille)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Aarhus, Denmark
Oslo, Norway
Stockholm-Arlanda, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland
St. Petersburg, Russia
Moscow-Sherematyevo, Russia
Riga, Latvia
Kiev, Ukraine
Chisinau, Moldova
Warsaw, Poland
Poznan, Poland
Prague, Czech Republic
Athens, Greece
Thessaloniki, Greece
Heraklion, Greece
Istanbul, Turkey

North America:
Montreal-Trudeau, Canada
Toronto-Pearson, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
New York-Kennedy, USA
Washington-Dulles, USA
Detroit, USA
Atlanta, USA
Miami, USA
Orlando, USA
Las Vegas, USA
Los Angeles, USA

South America
Sao Paulo-Guraulhos, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro-Galeao, Brazil
Recife, Brazil

Africa:
Algiers, Algeria (also served from Marseille)
Tunis, Tunisia (also served from Marseille)
Casablanca, Morocco
Alexandria, Egypt
Khartoum, Sudan
Johannesburg, South Africa

Asia (including Middle East & SE Asia):
Ankara, Turkey
Tbilisi, Georgia
Beirut, Lebanon
Tel Aviv, Israel
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Bombay, India
Delhi, India
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shanghai-Pu Dong, China
Tokyo-Narita, Japan
Singapore, Singapore
Jakarta, Indonesia

Our fleet:
ATR-42-300 x 7
Boeing 737-300 x 20
Boeing 767-200ER x 14