Tor Air AB, operated as Tor Air, was a charter airline based in Gothenburg,

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, that operated between December 2008 and December 2011. Its main base was Gothenburg City Airport. This airline should not be mixed up with another Swedish charter airline named Tor-Air, which operated from 1964 and 1966 with Curtiss Commando and Douglas DC-3 aircraft out of the former Gothenburg/Torslanda Airport.

History

The company was established by private investors and received a Swedish Air Operators Certificate on 1 December 2008. It commenced operations in December 2008 with a Boeing 737-400 leased from International Lease Finance Corporation. The airline specialised in wet-lease and charter operations, particularly operating services for other carriers when needed. Tor Air later acquired two Boeing 737-300s to fly from

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to Preveza and Gothenburg, as well as London-Gatwick to destinations such as Faro, Skiathos, Bourgas, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zante, Kos, Corfu and Rhodes. On 25 April 2010, Tor Air's Boeing 737-400 operated the first commercial service between Baghdad and

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in 20 years, while on a wet lease to Iraqi Airways. It was a short lived service however as a lawyer for

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tried to have the aircraft seized in London due to financial problems between Iraq and Kuwait, this was not possible though as the aircraft belonged to a Swedish company and not an Iraqi company.

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On 20 December 2011, Tor Air had its licence revoked by Sweden's transportation board, due to lack of sufficient financial resources.Tor Air licence revoked – Swedish
/ref> All staff were made redundant.

Destinations

Tor Air operated charter flights, serving the following destinations (as of March 2011):

Fleet

The Tor Air fleet included the following aircraft in September 2011:

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* {{Airlines of Sweden Defunct airlines of Sweden Airlines established in 2008 Airlines disestablished in 2011 Charter airlines