Jettime A/S is a

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with its head office in

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, and its main base at

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. On 21 July 2020, Jet Time announced it had filed for bankruptcy, after having discharged most of its employees in June due to the

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. In July 2020, the company announced it would resume operations in October of that year under the name Jettime with service to Copenhagen, Billund and Aalborg.

History

Jet Time was founded by a group of Danish investors and operated its first flight on 19 September 2006. In November 2016, it was announced that Jet Time and

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(SAS) would end their contract for Jet Time's operation of eight

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s on behalf of SAS in early 2017, as SAS wanted to concentrate on larger aircraft. Subsequently, Jet Time had phased out the relatively new ATR aircraft. The airline announced that it had filed for bankruptcy on 21 July 2020, though the airline expected to resume operations under a new company, legally incorporated as "Jettime A/S", following the pandemic. Jet Time's assets were also to be transferred to Jettime, including Jet Time's CEO, a number of key employees, and five of Jet Time's Boeing 737 aircraft, for operations planned to resume by 2022.

Destinations

Jet Time had operated charter flights to the following destinations over its history:

Fleet

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As of 25/6/22 Jet Times fleet consist of the following aircraft:

Previously operated

Jet Time had previously operated the following aircraft types, retiring them prior to the airline's shutdown: * ATR 72-500 *ATR 72-600 *

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*Boeing 737-400 *Boeing 737-500

Operations

Jet Time operated contract and ''ad hoc'' passenger and freight charters throughout Europe, as well as short-notice

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charters for scheduled airlines including

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, and

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. It also provided VIP charters for clients including

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, and

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References

External links

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{{Airlines_of_Denmark Defunct airlines of Denmark Airlines established in 2006 Companies based in Tårnby Municipality Transport companies based in Copenhagen