Britannia Airways

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Britannia Airways was a charter airline based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1961 as Euravia and became the world's largest holiday airline. Britannia's main bases were at London Gatwick, London Stansted, London Luton, Cardiff, Bristol, East Midlands, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool and Glasgow. It had its headquarters at Britannia House in Luton. Britannia was originally a charter operator for Universal Sky Tours and later for Thomson holidays where it became the in-house airline with a fleet of Boeing jet aircraft. In 2000, Thomson Travel Group, and thereby Britannia Airways, were acquired by TUI Group of Germany and operations merged into the German airline on 1 May 2002. As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, Britannia was rebranded Thomsonfly.

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