Air Caraïbes


Air Caraïbes is a French airline and is the regional airline of the French Caribbean which comprises two overseas departments of France; Guadeloupe and Martinique. The airline is headquartered in Les Abymes in Guadeloupe, and its main base is Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, with a secondary hub at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, near Fort-de-France in Martinique. It operates scheduled and charter services serving 13 islands in the West Indies, and also operates transatlantic flights to Paris in Metropolitan France using Airbus A330 and Airbus A350 aircraft under the Air Caraïbes Atlantique brand.

History

The airline was originally established as Societe Caribéenne de Transports Aériens, and started operations in September 1994. The current Air Caraïbes was founded in July 2000 through the merger of various local airlines Air Guadeloupe, Air Martinique, Air Saint Barthélémy, and Air Saint Martin, and was created in response to the air transport needs of the French Caribbean territories. In 2002, the company flew 445,000 passengers and had €68 million in revenues. In December 2003, the airline began services to Paris Orly Airport from Guadeloupe and Martinique using an Airbus A330-200.
The airline is owned by Groupe Dubreuil and has 627 employees as of March 2007. Air Caraïbes uses Travel Technology Interactive's airline management system, Aeropack.
Air Caraibes existed before 1990, operating Britten-Norman BN2-A Islander and Cessna Caravan prop aircraft. That year, one of their BN2-A's was sold to a Norwegian parachute club and flown from Guadeloupe to Florida and then to Oslo, Norway.

Destinations

Codeshare agreements

Air Caraïbes has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:
, the Air Caraïbes fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Air Caraïbes Fleet

Previously operated

Air Caraïbes has operated the following aircraft types: