Welcome Air
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Welcome Air Luftfahrt GmbH & Co KG - short Welcome Air - is an airline
Airline
An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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History

  • On 14. June 1995 Jakob Ringler, since 1983 one of the directors of Tyrolean Air Ambulance (founded 1963 as Aircraft Innsbruck), founded Welcome Air Luftfahrt GmbH.
  • Through a management buy out in 2000 Tyrolen Air Ambulance (re-named then Tyrol Air Ambulance), which had closely links to the local airline "Tyrolean Airways" as well as to the helicopter company "Heliair" (formerly "Aircraft Innsbruck"), became part of Jakob Ringler´s "Welcome Air" after he took over the majority (in 2011 93,27% belonging to Welcome Air)
  • On 22. May 2000 Welcome Air starts it´s first flight with Do-328 from Innsbruck to Graz
  • 2009 Welcome Air taken over by Lions Air Group (Switzerland) which also taken over the majority of Air Alps. The umbrella company Welcome Aviation Group set up to merge the companies Tyrol Air Ambulance, Air Alps and Welcome Air and their headoffices into one in Innsbruck
  • In Juli 2011 Welcome Aviation Group announced a restructure and therefore Welcome Air will concentrate it´s activities on business & event chartes and will end the Innsbruck - Graz service, but will continue the summer operations to Innsbruck/Graz-Olbia and Innsbruck-Nice. Air Alps will concentrate its activities on the Italian schedule operations and Tyrol Air Ambulance on its ambulance operations.

Destinations

Welcome Air operates the following services :
  • Austria
    • Graz
      Graz
      The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

       - Graz Airport
      Graz Airport
      Graz Airport , also known as Thalerhof, serves Graz, Austria. It is located in the municipalities of Feldkirchen and Kalsdorf, south of Graz city centre.-Transportation:...

    • Innsbruck
      Innsbruck
      - Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

       - Innsbruck Airport
      Innsbruck Airport
      -External links:*...


  • France
    • Nice
      Nice
      Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...

       - Nice Côte d'Azur Airport [seasonal]

  • Italy
    • Olbia
      Olbia
      Olbia is a town and comune of 56,231 inhabitants in northeastern Sardinia , in the Gallura sub-region. Called Olbia in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle Ages and Terranova Pausania before the 1940s, Olbia was again the official name of the town after the period of Fascism.-Geography:It is the...

       - Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport
      Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport
      Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport is an international airport in Olbia, Sardinia .-Airlines and destinations:-External links:*-External links:...

       [seasonal]


In winter it also operates for its subsidiary, the Tyrol Air Ambulance to transport injured skiers.

Former scheduled destinations:
  • Antwerpen
  • Goteborg
  • Hannover
  • Rotterdam
  • Kristiansand
  • Stavanger

Fleet

The Welcome Air fleet consists of the following aircraft :
Welcome Air Fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Passengers
(Economy)
Notes
Dornier 328-110 2 0 31
Dornier 328JET 1 0 32
Total 3 0


  • Aircraft registrations:
  • Dornier 328: OE-GBB, OE-LIR
  • Dornier 328 Jet: OE-LJR
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