Airline Name
Royal Airlines
IATA: QN / ICAO: ROY / Callsign: ROY
Country of Origin
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B737-201/Adv (B732) - Registration: C-GEIM - Operated: 9
B737-2E1/Adv(F) (B732F) - Registration: C-GCDG - Operated: 3
A320-212 (A320) - Registration: C-GRYY - Operated: 2
B757-236 (B752) - Registration: C-GRYZ - Operated: 6
Aircraft Types Not in Game
B727-217/Adv (B722) - Registration: C-GRYC - Operated: 8
Available in winglet variants as well, registeration C-FRYS
A310-304 (A310) - Registration: C-GRYA - Operated: 4
L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 100 (L101) - Registration: C-FTNI - Operated: 4
Why should this airline be added?
Founded in 1991 by Michel Leblanc, Royal Airlines was a Canadian charter airline, basing it’s operations at Dorval Airport with a fleet of Airbus & Boeing aircraft to scheduled passenger service to several destinations in Canada and the US, which included Edmonton, Fort Lauderdale, Honolulu, Montreal, Orlando, Toronto and Vancouver. Royal Airlines also operated transatlantic routes between Canada and Europe, including services to Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Madrid, Munich, Paris Charles de Gaulle and London Gatwick with their fleet of L101s & A310s.In 2001, Canada 3000 acquired Royal in an all-stock deal, with Leblanc receiving Canada 3000 shares worth $84 million and becoming the Canada 3000 vice-chairman. Canada 3000 also purchased Royal Cargo, renaming it Canada 3000 cargo. Canada 3000 cargo was later sold off and became Cargojet Airways.
A few months after the merger, Leblanc was fired from Canada 3000 on June 2001 in a bitter feud, as Canada 3000 filed a lawsuit against him for allegations of fraud and misrepresentation and in November 2001, Canada 3000 ceased operations as it filed for bankruptcy, citing a downturn in air travel during the weeks following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Leblanc went on to create discount airline Jetsgo in 2002 which went bankrupt in 2005, in a similar unexpected manner to Canada 3000’s demise.