Category:Trans European Airways
Trans European Airways , usually referred to by its initials TEA, was a Belgian airline that operated from 1971 to 1991. It was founded in October 1970 by the Belgian tour operator TIFA and George P. Gutelman. In 1971 inclusive tour flights commenced with a used Boeing 720. The airline initially acquired a fleet of second-hand Boeing 707s and Boeing 720s aircraft. In the early 1970s TEA became the first airline to order an Airbus and subsequently operated the only Airbus A300B1 variant to be used in public service - distinguished by its shorter fuselage and lack of slats - until its retirement in November 1990. The airline expanded, operating a second Airbus A300 for a while and started to acquire Boeing 737-200 aircraft. It later acquired Belgian tour operator SunSnacks, which it had helped to form in 1976, and created a subsidiary, TEAMCO (Trans European Airways Maintenance Company) to handle maintenance of its own aircraft and those of other operators, both civil and military. The company started to expand rapidly during the late 1980s, forming subsidiaries in the United Kingdom as TEA UK, France as TEA France, Italy as TEA Italy and Switzerland as TEA Basel, then TEA Switzerland. But the global economic downturn in the early nineties, partly as a result of the Gulf War, caused it to go out of business on 27 September 1991.
This page contains all films, TV series, and video games that feature aircraft of Trans European Airways.
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