Airline: | Flandre Air |
Iata: | IX |
Icao: | FRS |
Callsign: | FLANDRAIR |
Ceased: | |
Bases: | Lille Airport |
Headquarters: | Lesquin, France |
Flandre Air was a French regional airline headquartered at Lille Airport in Lesquin, France,[1] near Lille.[2]
The airline began as a charter airline in 1977. It began scheduled services in 1985. In October 1997 Flandre Air became the European launch customer of the Embraer RJ-135. In November 1998 Flandre Air signed a franchise agreement with Air Liberté, which began in January 1999. In October 1999 Proteus Airlines acquired Flandre Air.[3] On 30 March 2001 Flandre, Proteus, and Regional Airlines merged into Régional, which itself merged into HOP! in 2013.[2]