A Clickair Airbus A320 landing at London Heathrow Airport, England. (2008)

A Clickair Airbus A320 landing at Munich Airport, Germany. (2007)

Clickair was a low-cost airline that was based in the Parc de Negocis Mas Blau in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Spain.^[1][2] Clickair flew to nearly 40 destinations in Europe. The airline's main base was Barcelona International Airport with bases at Málaga, Seville and Valencia.^[3]

Clickair merged into Vueling Airlines on 15 July 2009.

History[link]

Early Years[link]

The company was first called Catair, derived from CAT (CATalonia) and AIR, but changed its name to Clickair just before starting operations. Catair Líneas Aéreas was the name of the holding company.^{[citation needed]}

The airline started operations on 1 October 2006 with 3 Airbus A320 aircraft operating 5 routes from its Barcelona hub.^[4] The company was founded from initial capital investment from Cobra, Iberia, Iberostar, Nefinsa and Quercus Equity (Group Agrolimen), each with a 20% share, with Iberia setting up the airline.^[5] Although Iberia holds a 20% stake in the airline, it controls 80% of its economic rights. The company has plans for the operation of 30 Airbus A320s on 70 routes, carrying 10 million passengers a year by the end of 2008.^[3] Clickair's IATA code, XG was inherited from Gestair Cargo's retired passenger airline Regional Líneas Aéreas.

Vueling and Clickair Merger[link]

In June 2008, Clickair and rival Spanish low cost airline Vueling announced their intention to merge.^[6] The merger was agreed because they wanted to make a single carrier better equipped to take out high fuel costs and fees, and both airlines were losing a lot of money. The merger would cause Clickair to cease operations because Vueling was to be the name of the new airline. The airline was to be based in Barcelona where both of the low cost airlines were based and were to keep its original hubs. Boss of Clickair Alex Cruz was also to be the chief executive of the airline.^[7]

On the 15th July 2009 the merger of Vueling and Clickair was completed.^[8] The new merged airline operates under the Vueling brand, with Clickair ceasing their operations. Since the merger, Vueling has become the second largest Spanish carrier flying 8.2 million passengers in 2009, to almost 50 destinations.

Destinations[link]

Inflight services[link]

Clickair offered Clickbasics, which is a shopping and buy on board programme for food, drinks, and other goods.^[9]

Fleet[link]

The Clickair fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at 21 March 2009):^[10]

At 21 March 2009, the average age of the Clickair fleet was 10.2 years.^[11]

After ceasing operations, 20 of the 26 aircraft went to Vueling. The rest of the fleet went to Astraeus Airlines, Vertir Airlines and Ural Airlines, with EC-GRE and EC-GRI being stored.

Aircraft orders[link]

5 aircraft were planned to be introduced in 2008, however the airline scaled back its expansion plans and would add only one aircraft to the fleet during the year.^[12]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Nicholas Bamforth BCL, MA (Oxon) is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College, Oxford, and a lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford since 1999. He had previously worked at UCL and Cambridge. In 2003-4, he was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University.

In October 2006 he became an elected member of the Council of the University. From March 2010 to March 2011, he held the office of Junior Proctor of Oxford University, a post lasting for one year. He has commented from time to time in the media concerning issues relating to university governance.

His research and teaching interests lie in public (constitutional and administrative) law, human rights law, anti-discrimination law and philosophy of law.

Books[link]

• Sexuality, Morals and Justice (London, Cassell, 1997)
• Public Law in a Multi-layered Constitution (ed. with P. Leyland, Oxford, Hart, 2003)
• Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality and Gender (with D. Richards, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Discrimination Law: Theory and Context (with C. O'Cinneide and M. Malik, London, Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)

Working on a textbook for Oxford University Press (human rights law) and on a monograph on the public law-private law distinction.

He was editor of Sex Rights, the 2002 series of Oxford Amnesty Lectures concerning human rights, gender and sexuality (Oxford University Press, 2004).

External links[link]

• faculty page at Oxford