2. Overview
Arke (previously Arkefly) is a Dutch charter airline with its
headquarters on the property of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in
Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands.
It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel
conglomerate TUI Group; its main base is Schiphol Airport.
Even though Arkefly operates both regular and chartered flights,
the majority of the charter flights are operated for the Dutch tour
operator Arke.
The airline operates flights to destinations in the Mediterranean,
Canary Islands, Red Sea, Mexico, Caribbean, U.S., Canada, Africa,
Asia, Brazil, and the Netherlands Antilles.
3. Overview
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IATA OR
ICAO TFL
Callsign ARKE
Founded 2005
Hubs Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Alliance TUI Airlines (now defunct)
Fleet size 11
Destinations 53
Parent company TUI Airlines (TUI Group)
Headquarters Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
Key people Steven van der Heijden
Website www.arke.nl
4. History
Arke traces its origins to Air Holland, which was founded in 1981.
The Exel Aviation Group took over Air Holland after financial problems;in
March 2004, Air Holland began a new start as HollandExel.
The Exel Aviation Group went bankrupt in May 2005, and the German TUI
Group assumed the airline’s activities and renamed it Arkefly, which is
now wholly owned by the TUI Group; the name ArkeFly was based on
Arke, the largest Dutch tour operator and is itself also a subsidiaryof the
TUI Group.
In September 2005, the newly established airline operated its first flight.
On 15 July 2004, operations began as DutchCaribbeanExel in Curaçao,
Netherlands Antilles; DutchCaribbeanExel was initially part of the Exel
Aviation Group, but it was later taken over, along with its parent airline,
HollandExel, by TUI Nederland, and renamed ArkeFly Curaçao.
On December 2, 2007, ArkeFly began weekly flights from Amsterdam to
St. Maarten, only to cease this route in November 2008.
TUI Nederlands maintains that these flights may recommence if the
number of tourists travelling to St. Maarten increases.
In 2011, operations to Orlando, Miami, and Israel started.
The airline changed its name to Arke in October 2013, even though the
new livery still carries the previous name.
5. Fleet TheArke fleet, as of June 2014, is made up of the
following aircraft with a normal age of 12.7 years.
Aircraft In
Service
Orders Notes
Boeing
737-800
5 0
Boeing
767-
300ER
2 0 To be phased
out by Boeing
787 aircraft.
Boeing
787-8
2 1 Replacing
older Boeing
767 aircraft.
Total 10 1
