Ocean Airlines

Ocean Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
VC VCX OCEANCARGO
Founded2003
Ceased operations
2008
HubsBrescia Airport
Fleet size4
DestinationsHKG, PVG, ALA, VBS
HeadquartersBrescia, Italy
Websitehttp://www.oceanairlines.com/ (Apparently website not working anymore)

Ocean Airlines S.p.A. was a cargo airline based in Brescia, Italy. It operated cargo services to Asia. Its main base was Brescia Airport.[1]

History

The airline was established in September 2003 and started operations in November 2004.[2] It was owned by Finrep (40%), Ined Holdings (40%), and ITAL Aviation (20%). It had 100 employees as of March 2007.[1]

It stopped flying in late October 2007 and was grounded in January 2008 by the Italian Civil Aviation Authority in January 2008.[3] The airline was declared bankrupt and receivers called in late April 2008.[4]

Former destinations

Ocean Airlines served the following at closure in 2007:

Angola
China
Hong Kong
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan
Turkey
United Arab Emirates

Fleet

The Ocean Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of November 2007):

Ocean Airlines Historical Fleet
Aircraft Image Total Introduced Retired Remark
Boeing 747-200F 4 2004 2007 I-OCEA, I-OCEU
F-GCBF, F-GCBH

References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 10 April 2007. p. 58.
  2. ^ N. Pedde, Almanacco delle Linee Aeree Italiane 1947-2007 (in Italian language), "Landra Helicus", GAN, Roma, 2007, ISBN 978-88-89640-06-7
  3. ^ "Ocean suspends ops". Air Cargo News.
  4. ^ G. Endres & Flight Data, "World Airlines 2008", Flight International weekly magazine supplement, Reed Business Information Ltd., Sutto (Surrey - U.K.), ISBN 978-1-898779-33-9