Air Europe (1990)

En 1990, Air Europe era una compañía que miraba al futuro con optimismo. La idea era establecerse como la segunda aerolínea británica más importante, desde su base en el aeropuerto de Gatwick, y establecer una alizanza paneuropea de aerolineas en Italia, España (Air Europa), Alemania (NFD), Noruega ... En realidad, fue el primer intento de crear un grupo de este estilo.
La red de rutas seguía creciendo, y además tenían un afiliado regional (Connectair / Air Europe Express) para volar a algunos destinos secundarios . Además, continuaban con su idea de dar una imagen de empresa seria, profesional y de calidad, "a la altura de las compañías tradicionales", procurando desmarcarse de su pasado como aerolínea charter.
En realidad, aunque tenían una visión casi premonitaria de lo que pasaría unos años más tarde en Europa, resultó ser un gigante con pies de barro y acabó desapareciendo poco después ...

In 1990, Air Europe was facing the future with optimism. They had plans to establish themselves as the second biggest British airline from their Gatwick base, and to build an European group of aligned airlines in Italy, Spain, Germany (NFD), Norway... Air Europe was actually the first airline that tried to build a paneuropean aviation group. 

Their route network was growing, and they also had a regional affiliate airline (Connectair / Air Europe express) which flew to secondary destinations; they also made a big effort to get rid of their charter airline reputation and to make themselves appear as a proud, proffessional, business-like airline "like the  traditional carriers"

We should give Air Europe credit as they had some good ideas and to some extent they were antecipating the future of European airline scene; however, the whole project was deemed to fail (as it happened soon after) for a number of reasons.