The History of Corsairfly

2010

Appointments:
- Samuel Vivares : French West Indies Regional Delegate
- Antoine de Kerviler : Information Systems Director
- Christian Bouzaid : Network Manager
- Olivier Besnard : Sales Executive
Signature of the voluntary charter with San Martin
Opening of the new line Paris-Antigua in partnership with the Winair company
Opening of the new line Paris-Miami - up to 3 flights per week
Strengthening the Paris-Mayotte rotation - now up to 3 flights per week

Opening of the Nantes-Quebec route (one flight per week).
Corsairfly in partnership with Air Canada reaches out to North America with connecting flights to Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saint John's Newfoundland, Quebec, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.
Corsairfly becomes one of the first airlines to sign the government's voluntary charter to facilitate contact between families in mainland France and French overseas departments.

Opening of the Lyons-Antilles route with an Airbus A330.
Launch of the loyalty programme, Air2famille, additional proof of the company's family-friendly policy.
Corsairfly migrates its reservation and inventory systems to AMADEUS and adopts a modern and even more reliable online reservation engine: Amadeus E-retail Engine.
IOSA certification awarded by the IATA: a safety and quality label for customers.
Opening of the Paris-Tel Aviv route.

Corsairfly asserts its commercial positioning focused on families. Massive advertising campaign in mainland France and French overseas departments and first TV advertisement broadcast on the main terrestrial TV channels.
Air Canada and Corsairfly announce the signing of a commercial partnership. First strategic agreement in the company's history.
Opening of the Paris-Dzaoudzi route with an Airbus A330-200.
Corsair becomes CORSAIRFLY. 21 March, adoption of the Group's uniform.
Acquisition by TUI of First Choice and incorporation of its tourism branch, thereby creating TUI Travel PLC (new French brands: Marmara, Tour Inter, etc.).

Corsair celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Hervé Pierret is appointed CEO of Corsair.
Jean Marc Siano is appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Nouvelles Frontières Group.
Opening of the Paris-Mauritius route
Two Boeing 747-400s join the fleet

Hervé Pierret is appointed Managing Director of the company. Corsair itself takes control of Risk Management.
New visual identity with the "smiley" logo and TUI colors.
Arrival of the first 747 featuring the "Corsair.fr" baseline and new logo on the fuselage. Fourth advertising campaign.

Introduction of our first Boeing 747-400 and overhaul of Corsair colors.
Replacement of our five Boeing 747-300s with Boeing 747-400s scheduled between November 2004 and December 2007.
Launch of the second Corsair advertising campaign
Extension of the head office in Rungis

Opening of the commercial website, "www.corsair.fr".
Launch of the "General Public" central reservation number: 0820 042 042, open 7/7 from 7.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.
Opening of regular routes with Fes, Marrakesh, Montreal and Moncton from Paris and with St Denis (Réunion) from Toulouse.
Launch of the first Corsair advertising campaign.
Eric Debry becomes Chairman of the Management Board at the Nouvelles Frontières Group.

Arrival of the fifth Boeing 747-300.
In September, TUI (formerly Preussag), with Michael Frenzel as Chairman of the Management Board since 1994, takes full control of the Group.
The Company's distribution activities are extended to all French travel agencies but continue to be sold by the Nouvelles-Frontières distribution network.

The company opens its capital to Preussag, Europe's largest tour operator.
Jacques Maillot, the founding Chairman, hands over the management of the company to Ralf Corsten, CEO of the Group for France. Pierre Chesneau is appointed CEO of Corsair.

The "classic" network of travel agencies is put up for sale (Nouvelles-Frontières and Domiennes).

Acquisition in July of an Airbus A330-200, dedicated to the Paris-St Denis de la Réunion route, then a second Airbus A330-200.
Replacement of the last Boeing 747-100 with a third Boeing 747-300.

Replacement of its first Boeing 747-100 with a second Boeing 747-200 to connect, among other destinations, Paris and Papeete via San Francisco or Los Angeles twice a week.
Acquisition of a 580-seat Boeing 747-300 in September.

Corsair replaces its two 148-seat Boeing 737-300s with Boeing 737-400s with an extra 25 seats (i.e. a total of 173 seats).
Acquisition of a third 539-seat Boeing 747 to link Los Angeles and Papeete.

Introduction of the second Boeing 747-100 to fly to La Réunion, Bangkok, Montreal, New York, Dakar and Los Angeles.

Corse Air International is taken over by Nouvelles Frontières. It receives authorization to fly to the Antilles and to purchase a Boeing 747-100.
Corse Air International becomes CORSAIR with a new logo reflecting the colors of the South Seas.
Arrival of Pierre Chesneau as Managing Director.

On May 17, 1981, the Corse Air International company was born.
A Caravel SE-210 named "Gulf Valinco" made his first flights from the airport to Ajaccio Campo dell 'Oro.