CityBird was an airline founded in 1996 and based in Brussels, Belgium. It filed for bankruptcy in October 2001. Thomas Cook toyed with the idea of buying them out of bankruptcy, but later pulled out.They flew a fleet of 12 aircraft including Boeing 767-300ER, Airbus A300-600, Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft. They flew to more than 50 European cities via Brussels. Citybird employed over 600 employees as of 2001 and was listed at NASDAQ Europe a.k.a Eastdaq under the ticker symbol CBIR (CityBird holding SA) in November 1997. Though they had bought their first MD-11 in December 1996, they began operations in March 1997.
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