Wamos Air
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| Founded | 23 June 2003 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport[1] | ||||||
| Fleet size | 10[2] | ||||||
| Destinations | Charter[3] | ||||||
| Parent company | Abra Group | ||||||
| Headquarters | Piovera, Madrid, Spain[4] | ||||||
| Key people | Enrique Saiz (CEO) | ||||||
| Website | wamosair.com | ||||||
Wamos Air, formerly named Pullmantur Air,[5] is a Spanish charter airline headquartered in Madrid.[6] It mostly operates leisure charter flights from its main base at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport and also operates aircraft for other entities.[1]
History
[edit]In 2014, former majority owner Royal Caribbean Group (which also owned now defunct Pullmantur Cruises) sold a 81% stake of Pullmantur Air to investor Springwater Capital which subsequently also led to a rebrand to Wamos Air.[5]
In 2022, Wamos Air announced it would end all scheduled services to focus solely on passenger and cargo charter and ACMI operations. The airline did serve few destinations throughout the Caribbean, which were subsequently handed over to Iberojet.[3]
From 15 November 2022 to 30 April 2024, Wamos Air will operate the Auckland - Perth route daily using their own aircraft (A330-200), crew and pilots on behalf of Air New Zealand.[7]
From 1 June 2024, Wamos air will operate two Airbus A330-200s from Manila to Sydney and Melbourne on behalf of Philippine Airlines for a five month period due to supply chain issues.[8]
Currently Wamos Air is operating flights for Air Europa on the Madrid (MAD) - New York (JFK) route as well as scheduled flights for Iberia to different destinations from Madrid Barajas airport. TAP Portugal is also being served by Wamos Air on the Lisbon - Fortaleza route.
Destinations
[edit]Charter operations
[edit]Wamos Air offers short and long-term charter operations as well as ACMI services for passenger and cargo flights[3] to other airlines such as Condor,[9] tour operators and other businesses such as sports clubs. One of its major customers had been its now defunct sister company Pullmantur Cruises.
In 2021 and 2022 Wamos Air had set up Tallinn Airport as its technical stopover between Asia and North America cargo routes.[10]
Former scheduled destinations
[edit]As of December 2019, Wamos Air offered scheduled flights under its own brand name to the following destinations[11] which were since all terminated.[3]
Fleet
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Current fleet
[edit]As of May 2024, the Wamos Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:[2]
| Type | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers | ||
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| C | Y | Total | |||
| Airbus A330-200 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 260 | 280 |
| 20 | 268 | 288 | |||
| 0 | 366 | 366 | |||
| Airbus A330-300 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 255 | 285 |
| 0 | 375 | 375 | |||
| 12 | 365 | 377 | |||
| 0 | 408 | 408 | |||
| Total | 11 | 2 | |||
Former fleet
[edit]Wamos Air previously also operated the following aircraft types:
References
[edit]- ^ a b ch-aviation.com - Wamos Air retrieved 27 February 2023
- ^ a b "wamosair.com - Our fleet".
- ^ a b c d ch-aviation.com - Spain’s Wamos Air exits scheduled ops, hands to Iberojet 23 June 2022
- ^ "Wamos Air (contact)". www.wamosair.com. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ a b ch-aviation.com - Wamos Air chosen as new Pullmantur Air brand 29 December 2014
- ^ "Contact". Wamos Air. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
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- ^ "airnewzealand.com - The Wamos Air experience". 26 April 2024.
- ^ "PAL taps Wamos Air for A330 capacity boost amid supply chain crunch". Flight Global. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ aerotelegraph.com (German) 10 January 2023
- ^ Tore, Iuliia (2021-11-17). "Tallinn Airport – Ideal Stopover for Technical and Cargo Flights". Retrieved 2022-01-24.
- ^ "Destinations". wamosair.com.
External links
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Media related to Wamos Air at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Air Pullmantur at Wikimedia Commons
