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TUI Airways has its origins in several rival airlines. Euravia (later renamed Britannia Airways in December 1964 [6]) was founded in January 1962. [7] Orion Airways, founded in 1979 by Horizon Holidays and later owned by the large brewing firm Bass Brewery and InterContinental Hotels Group, was sold and merged with Britannia Airways in 1989 but retained the Britannia name.
In 1999, the new corporate identity was launched as Norwich International Airport, kept until April 2017. [citation needed] In March 2004, the city and county councils sold 80.1% of Norwich Airport Limited to Omniport, [4] whilst retaining the remaining 19.9%. Omniport has also acquired 100% of Norwich Airport Travel Limited (the separate ...
TUI fly Nordic is a charter airline headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a part of the TUI Group. It operates short, medium and long-haul flights to leisure destinations from several airports in the Nordic countries, on behalf of the tour operators TUI Danmark (Denmark), TUI Suomi (Finland), TUI Norge (Norway) and TUI Sverige (Sweden). In ...
TUI AG (trading as TUI Group) is a German multinational leisure, travel and tourism company; it is the largest such company in the world. [2] [3] TUI is an acronym for Touristik Union International ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to tourism.
First Choice Holidays Limited [2] (trading as First Choice) is a British online travel agency and tour operator, headquartered in Luton, England. It is a subsidiary of TUI UK, itself a subsidiary of TUI Group , and its holidays are sold solely online.
TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel group headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex. The company was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG , which owned 56.4% of it. [ 2 ]
In 1981, Thomson Holidays were the first recorded users of Business-to-Business online shopping. [4] The business was floated on the London Stock Exchange with a valuation of £1.7 billion as Thomson Travel in May 1998. [5] [6] In 2000, Thomson Travel was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate. [7]
In 1998, Lunn Poly were the UKs largest wholly owned retailer of air-holidays with 2.3m air inclusive holidays sold, representing 20% of the market. [ 10 ] At the turn of the millennium, Lunn Poly unveiled alternative store formats including a megastore which had five key areas - long haul, short breaks, summer sun, families and late trips ...