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Air Transat is an airline based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, operating scheduled and charter flights and serving 90 destinations in 25 countries. During the summer season its main destinations are Europe and domestic flights within Canada and in the winter season the Caribbean, Mexico, USA and South America. It is the designated carrier between Canada and Cuba. Its main bases are Toronto Pearson International Airport, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and Vancouver International Airport, with hubs at Halifax International Airport and Québec/Jean Lesage International Airport.

History

Air Transat was founded by former Quebecair employees in December 1986 as an off-shoot of Trafic Voyages. It made its inaugural flight on November 14, 1987, travelling from Montreal to Acapulco. Six years later, Air Transat assumed defunct Nationair's maintenance base and aircraft. Chose the Cancun flight that's just right for you, or add the. Today, the company books 2. 5 million passengers a year. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transat A. T. Inc. , specializing in organizing, marketing, and distributing vacation travel and packages. The organization comprises tour operators based in Canada and France. Search for Cancun Flights.

Incidents and accidents

On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, flying from Toronto to Lisbon, had to land in the Azores after running out of fuel. On March 6, 2005, on an Air Transat flight from Cuba to Quebec, using an Airbus A310-300 with 9 crew and 261 passengers on board, most of the rudder separated during the cruise. The crew were aware something was wrong and returned to Varadero, Cuba, where they made a safe landing. The reason for the rudder structural failure is still under investigation. It has been established that no unusual rudder inputs had been used by the crew during the flight, they were not manipulating the rudder when it failed and there was no obvious fault in the rudder or yaw-damper system (ref: Flight International, July 2005).

Services

Air Transat specializes in charter flights from several Canadian and European cities to vacation destinations, mainly in the south during the winter months and in Europe during the summer. It also operates scheduled services as follows (as of January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Montreal, Quebec and, Toronto. Miami to Cancun: 530 miles (850 km). International scheduled destinations: [[Amsterdam, Acapulco, Athens, Bordeaux, Brussels, Camaguey, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo, Faro, Fort-de-France, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Holguin, Ixtapa, La Ceiba, La Romana, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Managua, Manchester, Manzanillo (CU), Manzanillo (MX), Marseilles, Montego Bay, Nantes, Nice, Panama City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pointe-à-Pitre, Porlamar, Port-au-Prince, Porto, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Rome-Fiumicino, San Andres Island, San Jose, San Salvador, Santa Clara, Santiago, Santo Domingo, St. Maarten, Toulouse, Varadero]]It inaugurated nonstop service Montreal-Madrid on May 2006. It now operates a weekly flight departing Montreal on Monday and Madrid on Tuesday. On June 2006 it will add a 2nd weekly flight departing Montreal on Friday and Madrid on Saturday. Both frequencies will use an Airbus A310-300 and the Mon/Tue rotation originates and terminates in Toronto.

Fleet

The Air Transat fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2006):

11 Airbus A310-3003 Airbus A330-2001 Airbus A330-300

In March 2006, Air Transat fleet average age is 13 years old.

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