Based in Luton, England, the Monarch Airlines is a British charter and scheduled airline. Considered one of the largest charter airlines that operate in the Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, India and Africa, the Monarch Airlines mainly serves the leisure destinations. Some of the flights also take place o the Mediterranean region as well as the Mediterranean destinations are one of the much desired by many tourists all over the world. One of the main base of the Monarch airlines is Luton which also acts as one of the chief location of headquarters for the airline.
Some of the other main operational bases are like London Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham. Many tourists for their travel to and from Britain prefer a subsidiary of the Monarch Travel Group, Monarch Airlines. Some of the other subsidiaries included in the Monarch Travel Group are, maintenance arm of Monarch, Monarch Aircraft Engineering, package tour operator, seat-only operator Avro.
| It also deserves mention that the company holds United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating License, which is required for carrying the passengers, cargo and mail on a 20 seater or more aircraft. It may be also mentioned that the Monarch Airlines is one of the topmost survivors among the prominent Independent airlines of UK of the 1960s,'70s, '80s and early '90s.
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The initial years of the Monarch Airlines can be traced back in the year 1967. During that year Bill Hodgson and Don Peacock receiving the financial support from the Swiss Albek and Mantegazza families acted as a subsidiary of Globus Gateway Holdings. The commercial branch of the Monarch Airline operations started in the 1968 with a charter flight from Luton to Madrid using a Bristol Britannia 175 turboprop. The initial fleet of the airline comprised of two Bristol Britannias. In the second year operations of the Monarch Airlines, six Britannias of the company carried 250,000 passengers within the period of 1 year for the first time.
It was in the year of 1972 that the airline firm carried about more than 500,000 passengers in one year for the first time in the history of the airline. The year 2007 was significant for the airline as it was voted Leisure Airline of the Year at the annual Travel Trade Gazette Awards and this happened for the second time that accolades was won by the airline.
The site Airlinesplan.com gives the required information on Monarch Airlines.
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