September 9 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian start-up airline Holiday Europe said it has launched operations on August 24 with its first flight from Turkey's Antalya to Germany's Nuremberg.
Sofia-based Holiday Europe has started to operate flights with a single Airbus 321-200 aircraft and will expand its fleet to seven A321-200 by October, it said in a statement published on its website.
"Planning to operate charter flights from Europe to nearly 50 cities, especially Egypt, Dubai, the Canary Islands and Turkey with its seating capacity of 1,314 persons as of October, the airline company aims to keep growing in 2020," Holiday Europe said.
The company aims to be among the top-ranking European tourist charter carriers by 2022, Petko Christoff, CEO of Holiday Europe, said in the statement.
Eastablished earlier this year, Holiday Europe has come a long way to be able to operate flights in such a short time thanks to the logistics agreements executed with Turkey's Onur Air, according to the statement.
Holiday Europe, established under Bulgarian AOC (Air Operating Certificate), is owned by private investors Petko Christoff and Balabaner Aibars and has a registered capital of 1.2 million levs ($677,805/613,550 euro), according to data published in Bulgaria's commercial register.
Onur Air is a Turkish low-cost carrier based at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, according to information published on the company's website.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)