Airline Name
Air Bourbon
IATA: ZN / ICAO: BUB / Callsign: BOURBON
Country of Origin
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
A340-211 (A342) - Registration: F-OITN - Operated: 1
Why should this airline be added?
Founded in November 2002 by the Group Bourbon, a French shipping company, Air Bourbon was a short-lived airline based at the Réunion Island operating a singular Airbus A340-200 from it’s main operating hub at Roland Garros Airport in Sainte Marie, Réunion. Commencing operations in June 2003, with routes to Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport and Paris Orly Airport in France, as well as Milan Malpensa Airport in Italy, with thrice-weekly flights from RUN to ORY and a separate weekly service from RUN to LYS, Services to LYS ran weekly, while ORY saw up to four rotations per week. The Milan route, launched in April 2004 as RUN-MXP via LYS. Briefly after commencing operations in 2003, Air Bourbon had ceased operations shortly thereafter due to financial constraints, with a recapitalisation for the airline being announced in January 2004, but by December 2003, Air Bourbon was liquidated and shut down.Plans for a relaunch by Group Bourbon under a new name ‘Air Comores International’ and was to be based in Moroni, Comoros. The airline was to offered flight services to France failed, and it went out of business in 2006.
