Peach Air was a

charter airline Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline). Regulation Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flight ...

in the United Kingdom that operated for two years between 1997 and 1998.

History

Peach Air was formed in 1996. It was part of

Caledonian Airways Caledonian Airways was a wholly private, independentindependent from government-owned corporations charter airline in the United Kingdom formed in April 1961. It began with a single 104-seat Douglas DC-7#DC-7C, Douglas DC-7C aircraft lease, ...

, created to operate for the tour operator Goldcrest. In 1999,

Thomas Cook Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an appren ...

completed the acquisition of Carlson Leisure Group, who operated Caledonian Airways and Peach Air. This led to a complete rebrand by Thomas Cook of its growing tour operation. In 2000, Thomas Cook rebranded their charter airline operations as

JMC Air JMC Airlines Limited (also known as JMC Air, JMC Airlines or simply JMC and stylised as jmc) was a charter airline in the United Kingdom formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways (1988), Caledonian Airways and Flying Colours Airlines, followin ...

, part of a new universal customer-facing brand "JMC". Flying Colours ordered 2

Airbus A330-200 The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet, and launched both designs alon ...

aircraft to begin long haul operations; these aircraft arrived after the JMC rebrand. JMC Air was rebranded as

Thomas Cook Airlines Thomas Cook Airlines Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline headquartered in Manchester, England. It was founded in 2007 from the merger of Thomas Cook Group and MyTravel Group, and was part of the Thomas Cook Group Airlines. It s ...

in 2002. Thomas Cook Airlines UK then announced a merger with fellow Manchester-founded airline

MyTravel Airways MyTravel Airways Limited was a British scheduled and air charter, charter airline with headquarters in Manchester, England. It operated worldwide holiday charter services mainly for its parent company, the MyTravel Group. The airline merged wit ...

. The parent companies had merged in June 2007, with the two airlines merging in November that year.

Fleet

The carrier operated 2

Boeing 737-200 The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating ...

and 2

Lockheed L-1011 Tristar The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation. It was the third wide-body airliner to enter commercial operations, after the Boeing 747 ...

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{{Airlines of the United Kingdom Airlines established in 1996 Airlines disestablished in 2000 British Airways Defunct charter airlines of the United Kingdom 1996 establishments in England 1998 disestablishments in England British companies established in 1996 British companies disestablished in 2000

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