Airlines Remembered
Air Plus Comet
Photos © R.Leeuw
Ceased operations: Dec.2006 (renamed)
Homebase: Madrid-Barajas, Spain
Founded: 1996
ICAO callsign: Red Comet
Prefix IATA: A7 / ICAO: MPD
Operations: Passengers
Air Plus Comet announced a revision of its brandname in Dec.2006, from Air Plus Comet to Air Comet.
It had always surprised me an airline would name itself to something that falls from the sky...!
The photo shows Airbus A310-324(ET) EC-GOT (cn455) at Amsterdam IAP in Jan.2000, on one of many subservice flights for one of the Dutch operators.
By 2006 the fleet of Air Plus Comet consisted of-
Boeing 737-33A (EC-IZM), McDonnell-Douglas MD-88 (EC-JKC, ECJOI), Airbus A310-300 (EC-GMU, EC-GOT, EC-IPT) and Boeing 747-200 (EC-IPT, EC-IPN, EC-IZL, EC-JDH, EC-JJG).
Air Plus Comet is part of Grupo Marsans (holding company of Air Plus Comet, Air Pullmantur and Aerolineas Argentinas).
During january and february 2007 aircraft began to appear in a new livery
Air Plus Comet on Airliners.net
Source:
AeroTransport Data Bank
JP Airline Fleets, 2006 edition
