Canarias Airlines Compañía de Aviación S.L., styled as Canair, is a Spanish regional airline with bases at
Las Palmas Airport
Gran Canaria Airport () is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria. It is an important airport within the Spanish air transport network (owned and managed by a public enterprise, AENA), as it holds the sixth position in te ...
and
Tenerife-North Airport which commenced operations as a subsidiary of
Binter Canarias
Binter Canarias S.A. is the flag carrier of the Spanish autonomous community of the Canary Islands, based on the grounds of Gran Canaria Airport in Telde, Gran Canaria and Tenerife North Airport, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain. It is a r ...
in September 2011. Canair was founded in 2011 as a low-fare subsidiary of Binter Canarias, which began operations in September of that year with two ATR 72-500 airliners.
History
The company was branded as “another move in the strategy of Binter Canarias in guaranteeing the provision of public services in the Canary Islands" and initially employed 22 pilots and 24 flight attendants, operating 24 daily flights between
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...
and
Tenerife
Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ...
.
In June 2023, Binter Canarias opened a second subsidiary airline,
Naysa Servicios Aéreos, using the name of a former airline.
This airline operates exclusively on behalf of Binter, alongside Canair.
Fleet
References
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Airlines of Spain
Regional airlines
Airlines established in 2011
Transport in the Canary Islands
Companies of the Canary Islands
Spanish companies established in 2011