Jet4you was a

low-cost airline A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called a budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on minimizing operating costs. It sacrifices certain traditional airline luxuries for cheaper fa ...

based in

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. It operated services between Moroccan cities and destinations in

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(Sunway charter) and

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. Its main base was Casablanca

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, with focus cities at

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and

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History

Launch

The airline started operations on 26 February 2006. It was owned by

TUI Travel TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel group headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex. The company was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG, which owned 56.4% of it. The compa ...

(40%),

Attijariwafa Bank Attijariwafa bank is an international financial services group headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco. Since its formation in 2004 by merger between Banque Commerciale du Maroc (in Arabic, ''bank at-tijari'') and Wafabank, it has been the leading ...

(20%), Investima-SGMB (20%) and MM.Marrache et Benabbes Taarji (20%). The shareholders jointly established a Moroccan company, Societe d'Investissement Aerienne, the investment vehicle behind the airline. Jet4You was directed by Jawad Ziyat. The objective was to widen the network to other European countries and reach 1.5 million passengers by 2010, with a fleet of ten aircraft and a 395-strong team.

Short-haul flight ban

In 2006, Walloon

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prohibited Jet4you from making a stopover in

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

during a

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–

flight, arguing that short-haul flights of fewer than 100 kilometres caused too much environmental damage. In December 2006, the

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confirmed that the ban did not violate any aviation agreements with Morocco, with Commissioner

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stating: 'The national authorities are allowed to take such measures, especially for environmental reasons.' Jet4you sued the

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, but in November 2008 the

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in Namur confirmed the legality of the short-haul ban, rejecting Jet4you's damages claim and ordering the airline to pay 15,000 euros for court proceedings. Minister Antoine marked this as a victory and again urged the

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to introduce a countrywide prohibition on short-haul flights (which had been considered by the previous Federal Transport Minister,

Renaat Landuyt Renaat Julien Landuyt (born 28 January 1959) is a Belgian socialist politician. He is a member of the SP.A. Renaat Landuyt became a licentiate in law in 1982 and has been an attorney since then. He was first elected to the Belgian House of R ...

Takeover by TUI

On 17 June 2008, it was announced that TUI Travel had taken 100% ownership of the airline, and on 18 July 2009, TUI Travel signed a letter of intent to sell a majority stake in Jet4you to Royal Air Maroc. Jet4you adopted the

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code 8J from the now defunct Russian airline

Komiinteravia JSC Komiinteravia () was an airline based in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia. It operated scheduled domestic passenger services, as well as passenger and cargo charter flights to domestic and international destinations. Its main base was Syktyvka ...

. (This code was subsequently removed from Jet4you and assigned to Línea Aérea EcoJet S.A.) On 10 January 2012, it was announced that Jet4you would be completely integrated into the Belgian company Jetairfly (now called

TUI fly Belgium TUI fly Belgium, legally incorporated as ''TUI Airlines Belgium nv'' and formerly branded ''Jetairfly'', is a Belgium, Belgian scheduled and charter airline with its registered office at Brussels Airport. The airline is a subsidiary of the TUI ...

). Jetairfly took over all aircraft, personnel and routes from Jet4you. The integration into Jetairfly was finalised in 2012, and all operations transferred in April 2012. All aircraft are now in Jetairfly colours, and all flights are booked through Jetairfly.

Fleet

Jet4You ceased operations in 2011, and merged with Jetairfly. For some other fleet information, see JetairFly's fleet.

References

External links

* * {{TUI Companies based in Casablanca 2006 establishments in Morocco 2012 disestablishments in Morocco Defunct airlines of Morocco Airlines established in 2006 Airlines disestablished in 2012 Defunct low-cost airlines TUI Group