Air Europe was a wholly privately owned, Independent
British airline, established in
1978 under the working title Inter European Airways. It adopted the Air Europe name the following year.Its main operational base was at
London Gatwick Airport, where it commenced commercial airline operations in
May 1979 with three brand-new
Boeing 737-200 "Advanced"
jet aircraft.Air Europe was the brainchild of Errol Cossey and Martin O'Regan, two former
Dan-Air executives. Harry Goodman, who had founded Intasun Leisure during the early 1970s, became the airline's main financial backer as well as the
chairman of the International Leisure Group (ILG), the
parent company of both Air Europe and Intasun Leisure.
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