Airline history from 2011, this page lists 162 airline related events from 2011.
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162 dates in airline history from 2011:
January 01, 2011
Sunrise Airways, founded in 2010, started operations. View airlines from Haiti.
January 08, 2011
Roblex Aviation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and ceased operations. View airlines from Puerto Rico.
January 08, 2011
Fly Kumba suspended operations. View airlines from Zimbabwe.
January 14, 2011
Vildanden, having started operations on 24Jan2005 from Skien Airport, Geiteryggen, ceased operations. View airlines from Norway.
January 14, 2011
Great Airways, a non-scheduled air cargo carrier based at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International (NBO) received its AOC. View airlines from Kenya.
January 14, 2011
Asia Majestic Airlines was established, but never started operations. View airlines from Thailand.
January 18, 2011
North Cyprus Airlines was founded, shortly after the bankruptcy of Cyprus Turkish Airlines in Jun2010. Did not start operations. View airlines from Northern Cyprus.
January 21, 2011
Tonlesap Airlines restarted operations. View airlines from Cambodia.
January 25, 2011
Senegal Airlines made its first flight. View airlines from Senegal.
January 27, 2011
Asian Wings operated its first flight. View airlines from Myanmar.
January 28, 2011
Air Nationals' operations are suspended by the NZCAA due to safety concerns. View airlines from New Zealand.
January 31, 2011
Fly540 having launched charter services in Dec2010, commenced scheduled services as an ICAO registered airline. View airlines from Angola.
February 10, 2011
peach was founded as A&F Aviation. View airlines from Japan.
February 10th, 2011
Atlas Blues' operations were integrated into RAM in 2009, and the fleets of both carriers officially merged. View airlines from Morocco.
February 11, 2011
PT. Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. officially became a Public Company. View airlines from Indonesia.
February 15, 2011
Pyrenair ceased operations. View airlines from Spain.
February 20, 2011
Gorkha Airlines, formed in 1996, ceased operations. View airlines from Nepal.
February 22, 2011
Gomelavia, founded in 1996, ceased operations. View airlines from Belarus.
February 22, 2011
Air Nicaragua was founded as the potential national flag carrier of Nicaragua but never started services. View airlines from Nicaragua.
February 23, 2011
Juliet Romeo Aviation was registered. View airlines from USA.
February 24, 2011
City Airways was established. View airlines from Thailand.
February 26, 2011
Indian ceased operating under its own brand with the merger with Air India being completed. View airlines from India.
February 28th, 2011
Swift Air, incorporated in Sep2009, began operations. View airlines from Malawi.
February 28, 2011
Nomads Travel Club, a Detroit based travel club that was formed in 1965, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. View airlines from USA.
March 04, 2011
Africa World Airlines received its AOC. View airlines from Ghana.
March 08, 2011
Meelad Air, established in Jordan, received Greek AOC. View airlines from Greece.
March 10, 2011
Air National notifies the NZCAA that it was voluntarily ceasing operations after being suspended on 28Jan2011. View airlines from New Zealand.
March 13th, 2011
Sideral Air Cargo made its first commercial flight. View airlines from Brazil.
March 14, 2011
Flyme was launched. View airlines from Maldives.
March 15, 2011
Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter (SMAC) ceased operations. View airlines from Indonesia.
March 16, 2011
Wataniya Airways ceased all operations because of financial difficulties. View airlines from Kuwait.
March 17, 2011
Operations by Afriqiyah Airways are temporarily terminated due to the Libyan civil war. View airlines from Libya.
March 19th, 2011
Pamir Airways had it license withdrawn, officially due to the poor safety record. View airlines from Afghanistan.
March 20, 2011
Tunisair Express, formed as Tuninter, was renamed from SevenAir. View airlines from Tunisia.
March 20, 2011
First flight of the B.747-8I. View airlines from USA.
March 21, 2011
Tabarak Aviation, created in Nov2010, restarted operations with a wet-leased a Travel Service B.737-800. View airlines from Jordan.
March 22, 2011
Velvet Sky operations began. View airlines from South Africa.
March 24, 2011
People's Vienna Line, formed by Altenrhein airport authority, had its AOC granted (>People's). View airlines from Austria.
March 25, 2011
Weltall-Avia was renamed to Irtyš Aircompany. View airlines from Russia.
March 27, 2011
People's Vienna Line had its maiden flight. View airlines from Austria.
March 28, 2011
Camair-Co officially restarted operations. View airlines from Cameroon.
March 31st, 2011
LTU as airline ceased when it merged into AirBerlin. View airlines from Germany.
April 01, 2011
Wizz Air Bulgaria suspended operations and AOC was revoked. View airlines from Bulgaria.
April 01, 2011
Orange Air was founded. View airlines from USA.
April 02, 2011
Air KBZ, formed in 2010, launched domestic scheduled services from Yangon. View airlines from Myanmar.
April 06, 2011
Riau ceased operation for the final time. View airlines from Indonesia.
April 6th, 2011
Layônair operations are launched, operating on behalf of Iberia Cargo. View airlines from Spain.
April 11th, 2011
Nordic Global Airlines was founded. View airlines from Finland.
April 13, 2011
Frontier formed a new subsidiary, Frontier Express. View airlines from USA.
April 18, 2011
Far Eastern Air Transport, having ceased operations on 13May2008, restarted services. View airlines from Taiwan.
April 20, 2011
Ridge Airways, owned by Sergey Kocharov, was founded. View airlines from Armenia.
April 20, 2011
Air One Cityliner was renamed to Alitalia CityLiner. View airlines from Italy.
May 01, 2011
Iberworld was rebranded and changed its name to Orbest Orizonia.. View airlines from Spain.
May 01, 2011
Air Canada Express launched services. View airlines from Canada.
May 03, 2011
Air Canada Express was founded. View airlines from Canada.
May 04, 2011
Virgin Blue became Virgin Australia. View airlines from Australia.
May 04, 2011
Aviacsa (Aviacion de Chiapas) finally ceased operations. View airlines from Mexico.
May 09, 2011
Artsakh Air planned to launch scheduled services but failed to start. View airlines from Azerbaijan.
May 10, 2011
REDjet commenced operations. View airlines from Barbados.
May 21st, 2011
Silver Airways was formed. View airlines from USA.
May 24, 2011
Hermes Airlines was formed. View airlines from Greece.
May 26, 2011
TNT Express, formerly an operating division of TNT N.V., carrier was demerged from its parent company. View airlines from Netherlands.
May 27, 2011
Eagles Airlines was renamed to PRiMA Aero Trasport Italiani. View airlines from Italy.
May 29, 2011
Sky Pasada had suspended operations on order from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines but resumed operations. View airlines from Philippines.
June 01, 2011
SAMAir restarted operations under new ownership after Central Charter Airlines Slovakia failed. View airlines from Slovakia.
June 01, 2011
Great Wall Airlines merged into China Cargo Airlines. View airlines from China.
June 01, 2011
Air Canada Express officially replaced Jazz as the brand applied to all regional services. View airlines from Canada.
June 07, 2011
RICO Linhas Aerea, grounded on 01Jun2010. lost its operational license. View airlines from Brazil.
June 08, 2011
SunExpress Germany launched services. View airlines from Germany.
June 13, 2011
Skywings Asia Airlines started operations (>Sky Angkor Airlines). View airlines from Cambodia.
June 20, 2011
ICARO Express files for bankruptcy. View airlines from Ecuador.
June 21, 2011
Iconair was established in Karachi. View airlines from Pakistan.
June 21, 2011
Air Cuenca ceased operations. View airlines from Ecuador.
June 27, 2011
Bimini Island Air ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
July 01, 2011
Zetavia started operations. View airlines from Ukraine.
July 01, 2011
Skynet Asia Airways was rebranded as Solaseed Air. View airlines from Japan.
July 11th, 2011
Silk Road Cargo' Business AOC was awarded. View airlines from Uzbekistan.
July 13th, 2011
NOAR Linhas Aereas: following operational complications after an accident, requested to the ANAC, the suspension of its services. View airlines from Brazil.
July 15, 2011
GoodFly made its inaugural flight from Burgos Airport to Menorca's Airport. View airlines from Spain.
July 15th, 2011
Sol del Paraguay, formed on 10May2010, started operations. View airlines from Paraguay.
July 18, 2011
NOAR Linhas Aereas ceased operations. View airlines from Brazil.
July 22, 2011
Transportes Generales Aéreos began operations. Ceased in 2015. View airlines from Peru.
July 22, 2011
Air Mikisew, formed as Contact Air in 1961, ceased operations in 2010, had its AOC revoked. View airlines from Canada.
July 26, 2011
Timor Air restarted operations. View airlines from East Timor.
July 26, 2011
Tibet Airlines restarted operations. View airlines from China.
August 02, 2011
China Eastern Yunnan, formed as Yunnan Airlines in 1992, launched services from Kunming. View airlines from China.
August 4th, 2011
Nordic Global Airlines, founded on 11Apr2011, started operations. View airlines from Finland.
August 08, 2011
Eaglexpres was founded. View airlines from Malaysia.
August 16, 2011
Jetstar Japan, a Joint venture between Japan Airlines, Jetstar Airways and Mitsubishi Corporation was launched. View airlines from Japan.
August 16, 2011
Puma Air was grounded, and then lost its operational license on 23Jul2013. View airlines from Brazil.
August 16, 2011
Sunny Airways was grounded, prior to losing its license. View airlines from Brazil.
August 17, 2011
Kaltim Airlines was the airline of Samarinda was founded by Awang F. Ishak and Sabri Ramdhan. View airlines from Indonesia.
August 20, 2011
Southern Star restarted operations. View airlines from South Sudan.
August 23, 2011
Robin Hood Aviation filed for insolvency and ceased operations the following day. View airlines from Austria.
August 25, 2011
Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas was established on this date by former Air Madrid director Julio Martinez & was awarded its AOC in Jul2015. View airlines from Spain.
September 01, 2011
IndiGo started international services with a flight from Delhi to Dubai. View airlines from India.
September 7th, 2011
Minoan Air was established as First Airways. View airlines from Greece.
September 07 2011
Ventura AirConnect conducted its inaugural flight between Bhopal and Gwalior. View airlines from India.
September 08 2011
JETisfaction started scheduled operations with routes from its home base at Münster-Osnabrück (FMO). View airlines from Germany.
September 09, 2011
EasySky start operations. View airlines from Honduras.
September 17, 2011
Jet Asia Airways, established in Dec2009, restarted operations. View airlines from Thailand.
September 19, 2011
AeroMajestic Airlines's inaugural flight took to the sky. View airlines from Philippines.
September 20, 2011
Air Minas, grounded on 30May2010, lost its AOC. View airlines from Brazil.
September 20, 2011
NOAR Linhas Aereas: following operational complications after its 13Jul2011 accident, NOAR requested to the ANAC, the suspension of its services. View airlines from Brazil.
September 24, 2011
ECAir operations start. View airlines from Republic of Congo.
September 26, 2011
Comlux Aruba received its AOC. View airlines from Aruba.
September 26, 2011
Boeing delivers its first B.787 Dreamliner to a customer, All Nippon Airways, at Paine Field in Washington. View airlines from USA.
September 26, 2011
Starbow began domestic flights out of Kotoka International Airport, serving Kumasi and Tamale. View airlines from Ghana.
September 28, 2011
Kingfisher Red, founded on 25Aug2003 as Air Deccan, ceased operations. View airlines from India.
September 30, 2011
Air Southwest ceased operations & was absorbed into Eastern Airlines. View airlines from United Kingdom.
October 01, 2011
The Continental-United merger results in the end of Continental. View airlines from USA.
October 01, 2011
Flyme began operations. View airlines from Maldives.
October 06, 2011
Iberia Express was founded. View airlines from Spain.
October 07, 2011
Solid AiR, established in 1996, was declared bankrupt. View airlines from Netherlands.
October 10, 2011
AviaNova ceased operations. View airlines from Russia.
October 15, 2011
TAME Xpress, established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of national carrier TAME in Oct2011, started operations. View airlines from Ecuador.
October 17, 2011
Libyan Airlines resumed commercial services following the lifting of all sanctions. View airlines from Libya.
October 18, 2011
TAR Aerolíneas was formed by Grupo Mafra (a property development group). View airlines from Mexico.
October 20, 2011
Flybe Nordic began operations. View airlines from Finland.
October 23, 2011
Dubrovnik Airlines started operations in 2005 & ceased on this date after defaulting on its debts. View airlines from Croatia.
October 26, 2011
ANA (All Nippon Airways) flew the first commercial flight of a B.787 Dreamliner, from Tokyo to Hong Kong. View airlines from Japan.
October 29, 2011
Sky Express, having commenced operations on 29Jan2007, now ceased. View airlines from Russia.
October 29, 2011
OpenSkies ceased operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
October 29, 2011
Lufthansa Italia, having commenced operations on 02Feb2009, today ceased. View airlines from Italy.
October 30, 2011
PRiMA Aero Trasport Italiani, launched as Eagles Airlines, operated its last flight. View airlines from Italy.
November 01, 2011
Airberlin Turkey a joint venture between Airberlin & Pegasus Airlines, launched operations between Antalya and Stuttgart as Air Turkya. View airlines from Turkey.
November 01, 2011
Scoot was founded. View airlines from Singapore.
November 03, 2011
Johnlin Air Transport, founded in 2008, operated its maiden flight. View airlines from Indonesia.
November 07, 2011
United Airlines flew the world's first commercial aviation flight on a microbially derived biofuel using Solajet™, Solazyme's algae-derived renewable fuel. View airlines from USA.
November 10, 2011
Albanian Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from Albania.
November 11, 2011
Livingston Compagnia Aerea was established on by Ricardo Toto’s RT holding company. View airlines from Italy.
November 15, 2011
Strategic Airlines was renamed to Air Australia. View airlines from Australia.
November 18, 2011
Lviv Airlines, formed from the Aeroflot Lviv Division in 1992, was liquidated. View airlines from Ukraine.
November 18th, 2011
Batik Air was announced as Space Jet, Lion Air’s planned full service subsidiary but was renamed prior to start. View airlines from Indonesia.
November 21, 2011
Helitt Líneas Aéreas, founded in 2009, began operations with the inaugural route Málaga - Melilla. View airlines from Spain.
November 21, 2011
Astraeus entered administration & ceased operations the same day. View airlines from United Kingdom.
November 23, 2011
Okapi Airlines, founded in Oct2011, launched flights. View airlines from DR Congo.
November 28, 2011
Sol Linhas Aéreas, founded in 2008, suspended all operations. View airlines from Brazil.
November 29, 2011
City Airline, established in 1997, ceased operations (>>Skyways). View airlines from Sweden.
November 30, 2011
United and Continental received FAA approval for a single operating certificate. View airlines from USA.
November 30, 2011
Air Tribe, established in Sep2011, launched services with two Convair 580F freighters. View airlines from Mexico.
December 01, 2011
CSO City Fly, subsidiary of Magdeburg/Cochstedt airport, launched Magdeburg/Cochstedt-Munich service. View airlines from Germany.
December 02, 2011
Hunnu Air commenced services as Mongolian Airlines. View airlines from Mongolia.
December 03, 2011
AIRES Colombia started operating as LAN Colombia under the unified LAN livery. View airlines from Colombia.
December 04, 2011
Bhutan Airlines, then known as Tashi Air, was launched. View airlines from Bhutan.
December 05, 2011
Fly Hellas having commenced operations on 01Feb2010 as Viking Hellas Aviation, ceased operations. View airlines from Greece.
December 07, 2011
V Australia was absorbed by Virgin Australia. View airlines from Australia.
December 08, 2011
Dalian Airlines received its public air carrier’s license from the CAAC. View airlines from China.
December 8th, 2011
Puru Aviation was incorporated. View airlines from United Kingdom.
December 15, 2011
P.C. Air operated its maiden flight, between Bangkok and Surat Thani. View airlines from Thailand.
December 15, 2011
Livingston Compagnia Aerea acquires the assets of Livingston Energy Flight before starting operations on 31Mar2012. View airlines from Italy.
December 15, 2011
Gulfstream International Airlines rebrands as Silver Airways. View airlines from USA.
December 19, 2011
South East Airlines had its licence revoked. View airlines from Russia.
December 20, 2011
Tor Air. having received its Swedish Air Operators Certificate on 01Dec2000, had it revoked. View airlines from Sweden.
December 21, 2011
CargoItalia finally ceased operating. View airlines from Italy.
December 25, 2011
VietJetAir restarted commercial services after renamed from VietJet AirAsia. View airlines from Vietnam.
December 30th, 2011
The Federal Office for Civil Aviation of Germany revoked the operating license of Blue Wings because of solvency fears. View airlines from Germany.
December 30th, 2011
Al Wafeer Air, having been founded in 2009, ceased operations. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
December 30th, 2011
Minoan Air, having been established on 07Sep2011 as First Airways, received its AOC. View airlines from Greece.
December 31, 2011
Jade Cargo, founded by Lufthansa Cargo & Shenzhen Airlines, ceased flying. View airlines from China.
December 31, 2011
Dalian Airlines launched services with a flight from Dalian to Shenzhen. View airlines from China.
December 31, 2011
Star Equatorial Airlines, a scheduled carrier based out of Malabo Santa Isabel (SSG) ceased operations. View airlines from Equatorial Guinea.