Air Luxor was a popular airline with its base in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, which ceased its operations in the year 2006, but has resumed its services once again. after that. It initilaly operated less number of flights, the base being Portela Airport. In recent times, it has associated itslef with services to and from Oporto, Lisbon, Funchal, Faro, Paris, Sao Tome, Dublin, Porto Sonto. Apart from these regular routes, there are also some seasonal routes of Air Luxor, which that helps it offer services to major destinations. Lisbon airport is the hub of Air Luxor.
Lisbon international airport is the most popular airport of the country, which serves as a hub to many international flights, which fly to some far destinations like, South and North America. This airport also operates some domestic flights as well. This airport is well connected by motorway and special mention needs to be made of the bus services.
| Air Luxor, a Portuguese company which was privately owned, was established in the year 1988, in the month of December. It was owned by a Mirpuri family, which started the operations with small fleet. But this private department of aviation was transformed to airline company in its course of business. In the year 1997, the operations were extended to commercial aviation, along with charter sector, which was followed by flight sector in the year 2001. Budget operations were introduced, as a marketing strategy in the year 2003.
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Air Luxor came out with the plan of rebranding itself with the name of Hifly, in the year 2005 and it made use of this brand name for charter flights. In the year 2006, the routes, Lisbon to Praia, Lisbon to Paris and Porto to Paris were called off. In that same year, this airline was sold to a group of Canadian-Portuguese investors, who were associated with Longstock Financial Group. It was forced to cease its operations in the year 2006, in the month of October.
In its second journey, Air Luxor is now having ten Airbus aircrafts with services in cargo along with passengers. This company is also associated with other businesses like air cargo, air ambulance service, aircraft maintenance, development of private airport terminals and also management and consultancy of executive jets. Along with these businesses, it is also expending the business to Air Luxor Tours, which has become one of the popular tour operators in the country of Portugal, which specializes in holiday packages, in the charter and scheduled destinations of Air Luxor.
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