Volotea Announces New Summer Routes The all Boeing 717-200 operation will soon be opening a third operations base in Ibiza.  This will be a seasonal operation, with operations starting June 15, with many popular summer routes among the Spanish Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean Sea. We’ve been covering the start-up of Volotea Airlines, and [...]

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Volotea Adds 14 New Destinations from Nantes (NTE) Volotea is a new Barcelona based low cost carrier using 125 seat Boeing 717′s between small and medium European cities. We’ve covered the progress of this new carrier in three previous articles: Volotea to Take off with 14 routes. Barcelona Based Volotea Initial Routes Barcelona’s New – [...]

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Volotea to offer 24 Destinations from Venice Volotea Airlines is a new European Low Cost Carrier that concentrates in serving small and mid-sized European cities, connecting them directly and bypassing big hubs with 125 seat Boeing 717 aircraft.  Despite Volotea’s roots in Barcelona, the airline will be opening their first operations base from Venice’s Marco [...]

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New European Low Cost Carrier – Boeing 717 Fleet Volotea is a new, Barcelona based, low cost carrier founded by former Vueling founders. The airline is operated by Alaeo S.L., with Carlos Muñoz and Lázaro Ros at the helm.  Despite the demise of Barcelona based Spanair, it appears Volotea will initially start operating from Venice, [...]

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All Boeing 717 European Low Cost Carrier In the absence of Spanair, a new Barcelona based low cost carrier, Volotea, has entered into a long-term lease deal with Boeing.  The start-up has already taken delivery of their first 717-200 airplane from Boeing Capital Corporation and plans to begin a new European point-to-point service with an [...]

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