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Wardair was founded by Maxwell Ward in 1946 as Polaris Charter Co. In 1952 it was renamed as Wardair Ltd. The airline became very active on the transatlantic routes, but also flew to the Carribbean, Mexico and parts of the USA. During the 1980s Wardair was the third airline of Canada. Wardair became part of Canadian Airlines in January 1990.
There were twelve A310-300 aircraft in the fleet at that moment, plus three Boeing 747s. The photograph shows a Wardair Airbus A310 landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
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THY Turkish Airlines (Türk Hava Yollari) is the national airline of Turkey. It received its first Airbus A310 in 1985. Since then more than twenty aircraft have been delivered to THY, of which a small number is still in service.
The aircraft on the picture above is taxiing after landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
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TAROM (Transporturi Aeriene Romana) is the national airline of Romania. The airline was founded in 1954 and operated a mix of Western and Sovjet-built aircraft. In 1990 TAROM started a modernisation program to enable it to compete with foreign airlines operating to Bucharest.
In 1992 the airline purchased two Airbus 310 aircraft and a third one was added in 1994. The aircraft on the picture is approaching Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
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TAP Portugal (formerly TAP Air Portugal) is the national airline of Portugal. The fleet includes several Airbus types and one of them is A310-300. The first A310 was delivered in 1988 and the airline received at total of seven aircraft of the type.
Recently TAP adopted a new colour scheme, which is shown on the picture above. The aircraft on the picture is taking off from Paris Orly Airport. On the photograph below an A310 in the old TAP Air Portugal colour scheme is on finals at London Heathrow Airport.
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Swissair and Lufthansa were the first users of the Airbus A310. Swissair received its first of eleven A310 aircraft in 1983.
The aircraft on the picture above is approaching London Heathrow. The small picture with an A310 in a later Swissair livery is taken at Zürich.
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Sudan Airways is the national airline of Sudan. It flew a total of six different Airbus A310 aircraft since 1992, three -200s and three -300s. Sudan Airways flies domestic and international services. Destinations include points in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
The aircraft on the picture is ready for departure at Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport.
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Royal Jordanian Airlines is the national airline of Jordan. The airline started flying in 1963 as Alia but was later renamed Royal Jordanian Airlines. Part of the fleet is a number of Airbus A310 aircraft of which the first one was delivered in 1987. The airline introduced both the A310-200 and the A310-300 in its fleet, but only a small number of A310-300s is left. Two of these aircraft are configured as cargo-aircraft.
The photograph is taken while a Royal Jordanian A310-300 is approaching London Heathrow Airport during an early evening flight.
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Pan Am was the first US airline flying the Airbus A310. The aircraft often visited Frankfurt, where Pan Am operated a busy hub. The aircraft on the picture is named 'Clipper Frankfurt'.
Pan Am operated a total of 21 Airbus A310 aircraft between 1985 and 1991, when the aircraft were transferred to Delta Air Lines. Most ex-Pan Am A310s are now in service with Federal Express as freighters.
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MEA Middle East Airlines from Lebanon flew a total of ten A310 aircraft. The first two were ex-KLM and delivered in 1992. The next year MEA added three ex-Lufthansa A310s to its fleet.
The large picture shows two aircraft in MEA colours at Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport during the 1990s, one from KLM and one from Lufthansa. The photo below shows an A310 in the newest colours of MEA.
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Airbus Industrie delivered one A310 with main deck cargo door new from the factory. This Convertible A310-200C (PH-MCB) started its operational life with the Dutch charter airline Martinair. Thanks to this door (3.58m x 2.57m = 141 in x 101 in) the aircraft could be fully converted between all-passenger and all-cargo configurations. The aircraft had a strengthened main deck floor fitted with a powered handling system.
The PH-MCB is now in the fleet of air cargo courier FedEx (Federal Express) and has been converted to full freighter configuration. Later other A310s were modified to get a cargo door too.
Martinair also operated an all-passenger Airbus A310 on holiday flights. The two aircraft were in service with the airline from 1984 to 1995. Both were sold to Federal Express.
Martinair is one of the oldest holiday charter airlines. The airline was founded in May 1958 as Martin's Air Charter by Martin Schröder. The present name was adopted in 1971. Today the airline offers holiday charters, scheduled services and extensive cargo operations. On the picture PH-MCB is taking off from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Martinair's homebase.
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Mahan Air is an airline from Iran, founded in 1992. Since 2002 Mahan Air acquired a total of three Airbus A310-300 aircraft, which are still in service with the airline.
One of Mahan Air's international destinations is Düsseldorf, where the picture is taken.
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Iran Air flies both the Airbus A300 and the A310. Between 2000 and 2004 the airline acquired eight secondhand aircraft but some of them are stored. The A310s are of the 200- and 300-versions.
The picture shows an A310-300 taxiing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. This particular aircraft was delivered to Emirates in 1987 and went to Iran Air in the year 2000.
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The German holiday charter airline Hapag-Lloyd acquired a total of fifteen Airbus A310aircraft and four of these are still in active service with the airline. In 1988 Hapag-Lloyd received four A310-200s. Later it put to service ten A310-300s and one more -200 aircraft.
The airline was formed in 1972 by the German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd. In 1997 the airline became part of the TUI travel organisation and the aircraft started wearing HapagFly titles in 2005.
The photograph above shows an Hapag-Lloyd Airbus A310 in white non-standard TUI-colours approaching Frankfurt Airport. On the small picture below an A310 in the light blue standard colour scheme is taxiing at Düsseldorf Airport.
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Federal Express (FedEx) flies a large fleet of freighter aircraft, including many converted former passenger jets. Among the converted airliners are seventy Airbus A310 aircraft: 49 A310-200s and 21 A310-300s. Federal Express is specialised in delivering packages and freight. It was founded in 1971 and started operations in 1973 with a number of small Dassault Falcon 20 bizjets in cargo configuration. Today FedEx flies an enormous fleets of Boeing 727s, DC-10s, MD-11s, A300s and A310s.
The Airbus A310 on the photograph is approaching Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport in the early evening. This particular aircraft (N801FD) was delivered to Pan Am in 1990 and later flew for Delta Air Lines, Air India and Merpati Nusantara Airlines in Indonesia. In October 2000 it became part of the FedEx-fleet.
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The Canadian charter airline Air Transat flies eleven Airbus A310 airliners. The first of the type was delivered to the airline in 2001.
The aircraft on the picture is in the newest colour scheme. It is approaching London Heathrow Airport.
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Because of the bad economics of Sovjet aircraft types, Aeroflot started operating Western types during the 1990s. The first type that Aeroflot acquired was the Airbus A310-300. The Airbuses were mostly operated on international services to Western countries. The first A310s arrived in the Aeroflot fleet in 1992 and the airline operated a total of fourteen.
During the first years the aircraft showed a remarkable new colour scheme (photo below), but later the standard Aeroflot livery was applied on the aircraft (large picture). Both photographs are taken at London Heathrow.
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