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Denim Air is an airline based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It provides wet lease aircraft and is also the scheduled airline subsidiary of the Denim Air Group.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

• IATA Code: 3D
• ICAO Code: DNM
• Callsign: DENIM^[1]

The airline was established in 1996 and started operations in April 1996. In January 1999 the Spanish airline Air Nostrum wholly acquired Denim Air. In October 2002 the management team of Denim Air bought back the shares in a management buy-out. In June 2003 it started operating domestic flights in Germany from Augsburg to Düsseldorf and Berlin. Recently (end of 2005) Denim Air came in the hands of the Panda Holding which also owns VLM. Mr. Jacobson is the man in control of this holding. Also Rekkof (NG Fokker 70/100 company) is in the hands of Mr. Jacobson.

The Denim Air operation under the name Denim Airways have been completely cancelled. Denim Air is solely operating under Wet Lease contracts. Denim Air is mainly targeting African, Asian and other willing markets, operating for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in Sudan and Central Africa, for the Norwegian Army in Afghanistan, for Veba Oil in Lybia. Furthermore there are operations in The Netherlands (VLM Airlines), Albania (Albanian Airlines)Nigeria (Arik Air), (Virgin Nigeria). Denim F50 have also been operating on behalf of KLM Cityhopper, Olympic, Loganair, Aer Arann, British Airways, Cirrus Airlines, United Nations World Food Programme, Wideroe, Danish Army, Air Senegal and Air Mauretania Air service Gabon and many others.^{[citation needed]}

Denim Air solely operates under wetlease (ACMI) contracts on behalf of Airlines, United Nations, NGO's, Army Forces.

The Denim Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):^[2]

• 11 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 (10 owned by Air Nostrum but on a Dutch (Denim Air) registration, 1 owned by Veba Oil of Lybia but on a Dutch registration).
• 12 Fokker 50
• 2 Fokker 100 from Q3 of 2007

• Denim Air

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006