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Monarch Airlines

uk independent, small size, GB.

Ownership

private

Starting fleet

5 x Boeing 720B

Bases

LTN

Starting routes

LTN-PMI, LTN-AGP, LTN-BCN, LTN-FAO, LTN-MAD

Confidence

estimated (to be verified)

Fleets and networks are approximations for the prototype and are scaled to the model. Source: Monarch Airlines page (exact): founded 5 June 1967, first flight 5 April 1968; all jet by 1976 after the last Britannia was sold on 21 May 1976; first million passenger year 1981; first charter airline to order the 757, in 1981. Whether it flew 720Bs or 707s in January 1976 is not known: 720Bs assumed. Finance is an estimate.