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TUI Airways has its origins in several rival airlines. Euravia (later renamed Britannia Airways in December 1964 [6]) was founded in January 1962. [7] Orion Airways, founded in 1979 by Horizon Holidays and later owned by the large brewing firm Bass Brewery and InterContinental Hotels Group, was sold and merged with Britannia Airways in 1989 but retained the Britannia name.
TUI fly Belgium, formerly Jetairfly, is a Belgian airline with its administrative headquarters in Ostend. TUI fly has operated since late 2005 and has a network of 180 routes to more than 100 airports in the Mediterranean , Red Sea , Caribbean , Canary Islands , Cape Verde Islands , Africa and the United States .
TUI AG (trading as TUI Group) is a German multinational leisure, travel and tourism company; it is the largest such company in the world. [2] [3] TUI is an acronym for Touristik Union International ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to tourism.
The airline carried 6.5 million passengers during 2002. The 2005 total was 6.0 million - fifth highest passenger figures of any UK airline. In 2004 it announced plans to refurbish another six Boeing 767-300 aircraft to expand its long haul operations. The airline was the first in the UK to use the Boeing 777-style interior on their 767 fleet ...
The headquarters was moved from Lunn Poly House in Leamington Spa to London during the acquisition. [15] In October 2004, TUI sold a number of Travel House Group stores to Martin Morgan Travel, before confirming the remainder would be rebranded to Lunn Poly. [16]
It is in the top 10 for the number of firms with 1-250 employees and in the top 15 for the number of firms employing over 250 people. [1] The population of York grew at a rate of 1.4 percent per year between 2005 and 2010, increasing from 189,200 to 202,400. [ 1 ]
A merger in 2014 between TUI Travel PLC and TUI AG led to the creation of the TUI Group. TUI Travel A&D changed its name to Hotelbeds Group and subsequently to Hotelbeds. [3] Hotelbeds was acquired by Cinven and CPPIB in 2016, [4] [5] [6] In 2017, Tourico Holidays and GTA Travel were purchased and integrated in 2018. [7]
Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000.