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Air Comet
IATA A7	ICAO MPD	Callsign RED COMET[1]
Founded		1996
Hubs		Madrid Barajas International Airport
Fleet size		14
Destinations		13
Parent company		Grupo Marsans
Headquarters		Madrid, Spain
Key people
Website: http://www.aircomet.com/

Air Comet (formerly Air Plus Comet) is an airline based in Madrid, Spain. It operates scheduled long-haul services from Madrid to 13 destinations in Central and South America, as well as services in Europe. Its main base is Madrid Barajas International Airport^[2], Terminal 1.

Contents 1 History 2 Destinations 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

The airline was established in December 1996 as Air Plus Comet and started operations in March 1997. It mainly operated long-haul charter services from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca to destinations in the Americas and the Caribbean. It relaunched as a full service carrier under the Air Comet name in January 2007. It is wholly owned by Grupo Marsans^[2].

On January, 2007, Air Comet took over some of the now defunct Air Madrid airline's Latin American routes. It also accepted passengers left stranded (those who had already flown a portion of their ticket) for a flat fee of 200 USD.

On May 25, 2007, Air Comet suspended its flights to the United States, citing a desire to focus on growth in the European and Latin American markets.

Grupo Marsans bought 4 A380's, and two of them will go to Air Comet.

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Air Comet operates the following services (as of October 2007):

• International scheduled destinations: Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Lima, Quito, Guayaquil, Havana, Santo Domingo, San Jose de Costa Rica, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, London, Paris and Rome.

Of these the following are operated as codeshare flights:

• Buenos Aires, London, Paris and Rome (with Aerolíneas Argentinas)
• Santiago de Chile (with Air Comet Chile)
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra (with Aerosur)

• Charter services, which are mostly seasonal, include:
  • Madrid to Cancún, Punta Cana, Lanzarote, Puerto Plata, Montego Bay, Samaná, Isla Margarita and Tenerife.
  • Barcelona to Cancún, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Lanzarote, Monastir, Samaná, Punta Cana, Tenerife

• Special Charter: TAAG, The Angolan National Airlines, has chartered a Comet Air plane to fly its regular services to Lisbon (DT652), as TAAG has been banned from flying to Europe. The Comet Air plane was sighted in Luanda International Airport on October 27, 2007.

The Air Comet fleet includes the following aircraft (as of September 2007): ^[3]

• 4 Airbus A310-300 (EC-GMU, GOT, IPT, KJL)
• 3 Airbus A320-200 (EC-KBM, KIK, KJG)
• 3 Airbus A330-200 (EC-KDF, KIL, KIM)
• 3 Airbus A340-300 (EC-KAJ, KCF, KHU)
• 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (OE-LMI) (Wet leased from MAP jet)

On January 7, 2007, Grupo Marsans who controls Air Comet, orders 12 A330-200, of which 6 will go to Air Comet.

On October 12, 2007, Grupo Marsans made a preliminary order for 61 various Airbus aircraft including 5 more A330, 42 A320 Family (12 A319, 25 A320, 5 A321), 10 A350 and 4 A380, of which part (including 2 A380) will go to Air Comet

• Air Comet
• Air Comet Fleet
• A blog about Air Comet

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ ^{a b} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-03-27, p. 55. 
3. ^ http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=MPD&al_op=1

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