Chalair Aviation is a French regional airline with its head office and base on the grounds of Caen – Carpiquet Airport in Carpiquet. It operates scheduled regional services as well as charter flights for various occasions.

History

The airline was founded on October 1986 as Chalair by Philippe Lebaron and renamed to Chalair Aviation in 1997. Starting 1997, besides business and freight flights, Chalair Aviation began operating a

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for scheduled flights between Le Mans and Eindhoven and an ATR 42 between Cherbourg and

Orly Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the co ...

. Between 1997 and 2004, Chalair Aviation operated 1

, 1

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and 3

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and CJ2 jets. The airline provides scheduled services as well as corporate shuttle services, freight (including toxic and corrosive material), business and sanitary flights, pilot certification and training, aircraft management and engineering and neighboring islands and JAR Part 145 maintenance services. The airline now employs a total 42 persons, among them 27 are pilots. In July 2016, Chalair Aviation took over the Antwerp to

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route from bankrupt VLM Airlines, inaugurating its first service to

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after stopping flights between Lyon and Cologne. German startup airline brand Green Airlines selected Chalair Aviation as their operating carrier for German domestic services from February 2021.

Destinations

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Chalair Aviation operates to the following destinations under their own brand as of July 2019: ;France *

Agen The commune of Agen (, ; ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. Geography The city of Agen lies in the southwestern department ...

– Agen La Garenne Airport * Ajaccio – Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport ''(Summer Seasonal)'' *

Bastia Bastia (, , , ; co, Bastìa ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest population of any commune on the is ...

– Bastia – Poretta Airport ''(Summer Seasonal)'' * Bergerac – Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport ''(Summer Seasonal)'' *

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

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Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the ''commune'' of Mérignac, west of Bordeaux, within the ''département' ...

base *

Brest Brest may refer to: Places *Brest, Belarus **Brest Region **Brest Airport **Brest Fortress * Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria * Břest, Czech Republic *Brest, France ** Arrondissement of Brest **Brest Bretagne Airport ** Château de Brest *Br ...

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Brest Bretagne Airport Brest Bretagne Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Brest Bretagne) , formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an international airport serving Brest, France. It is located in the '' commune'' of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) nort ...

* Carpiquet -

Caen - Carpiquet Airport Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Limoges –

Limoges – Bellegarde Airport Limoges – Bellegarde Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Limoges – Bellegarde, ) is an airport located west-northwest of Limoges, a ''commune'' of the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The airport pre ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

– Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport * Montpellier –

Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport or ''Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée'' , also known as Fréjorgues Airport, is an airport in southern France. It is located east-southeast of Montpellier in Mauguio, in the Hérault department of t ...

* Nantes –

Nantes Atlantique Airport Nantes Atlantique Airport (french: Aéroport Nantes Atlantique, formerly known as ''Aéroport Château Bougon'') is an international airport serving Nantes, France. It is located southwest of the city, in Bouguenais. The airport is operated b ...

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...

–

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) is an international airport located southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes ''départment'' of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a foc ...

''(Summer Seasonal)'' *

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

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Orly Airport Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly ...

* Pau – Pau Airport *

Quimper Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Administration Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistère department. Geography Th ...

- Quimper–Cornouaille Airport (UIP) * Rennes – Rennes–Saint-Jacques Airport

Fleet

As of 11 March 2022 the Chalair Aviation consists of the following aircraft:- Chalair Aviation fleet details
retrieved 22 Mai 2022.

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of France Airlines of France Airlines established in 1986 French companies established in 1986