TUI fly Netherlands, legally incorporated as ''TUI Airlines Netherlands'' (formerly branded as ''Arkefly'' and ''Arke''), is a Dutch

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headquartered in

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on the grounds of

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, Netherlands. It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel conglomerate

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. Its main base is Schiphol Airport.

History

Arkefly

TUI fly Netherlands traces its roots to Air Holland which was founded in 1981. After financial problems, Air Holland was taken over by the ExelAviation Group and took a new start as

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in January 2004. In May 2005, the ExelAviation Group was declared bankrupt. The German

took over the airline's activities and renamed it ''ArkeFly''. Operations in

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began on 15 July 2004 as

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, which was also part of the ExelAviation Group but was later taken over, together with sister airline HollandExel, by the TUI Group and renamed ''ArkeFly Curaçao''.

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27 March 2007 ArkeFly started weekly flights to St. Maarten from Amsterdam on 2 December 2007, but discontinued this service in November 2008. TUI holds that flights may resume if the volume of tourists travelling to St. Maarten increases. Operations to

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, and

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began in 2011. In October 2013, Arkefly changed its marketing name to ''Arke'' to reflect the partnership with the travel agency of the same name.

TUI fly Netherlands

On 13 May 2015, it was announced by the TUI Group that all five of TUI's airline subsidiaries will be named TUI, whilst keeping their separate

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, taking over three years to complete. Arke was the first to undergo the change and was renamed TUI on 1 October 2015, therefore also changing the airline's name.

has 70 737 MAXs on order for the group, the order consists of a mix of the 737 MAX 8 and MAX 10 and some of these will be used for the airline to modernize the fleet and replace older aircraft. The number of aircraft allocated to TUI fly Netherlands is yet unknown with deliveries of the new aircraft commencing in January 2018. In November 2024, TUI fly Netherlands retired their last

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as the last TUI Group operator of this type.

Destinations

TUI fly Netherlands carries out scheduled and chartered flights, although most of the chartered flights are operated for the Dutch tour operator TUI Netherlands. It operates to destinations in the

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, Mexico,

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, United States,

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and the

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. Following is a list of destinations the airline flies and excludes its other destinations from airlines

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, TUI fly Deutschland, TUI fly Nordic and

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. As of September 2023, TUI fly Netherlands serves the following destinations:

Codeshare agreements

Additionally, TUI fly Netherlands used to have a

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with

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Fleet

Current fleet

, TUI fly Netherlands fleet operates an all-

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fleet composed of the following aircraft:

Former fleet

TUI fly Netherlands formerly operated the following aircraft:

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of the Netherlands Airlines of the Netherlands Airlines of the Netherlands Antilles Charter airlines Airlines established in 2005 Dutch companies established in 2005 TUI Group Companies based in North Holland Haarlemmermeer