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Bluebird Airways

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Adapted from the English Wikipedia article Bluebird Airways, available under CC BY-SA 4.0Updated 7 August 2025
Bluebird Airways
IndustryAirline
Founded2008 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Headquarters
Heraklion
,
Greece
Area served
International
ProductsScheduled and charter passenger and cargo air services

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Bluebird Airways operates as an international carrier with its main office situated at Heraklion International Airport in Heraklion, Greece.

History

Founded in 2008 in Heraklion, Crete, Bluebird Airways is a Greek airline primarily engaged in scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services originating from Tel Aviv.

Destinations

Country City Airport Notes
Template:AUT Vienna Vienna International Airport
Template:BUL Burgas Burgas Airport Seasonal service
Sofia Vasil Levski Sofia Airport
Template:CYP Larnaca Larnaca International Airport
  1. REDIRECT Template:DEU||Berlin||Berlin International Airport||
Template:CZE Prague Václav Havel Airport Prague
Template:GRE Athens Athens International Airport Focus city
Heraklion Heraklion International Airport Hub
Mykonos Mykonos International Airport Seasonal service
Kos Kos International Airport Seasonal service
Rhodes Rhodes International Airport Seasonal service
Santorini Santorini (Thira) International Airport Seasonal service
Thessaloniki Macedonia International Airport Seasonal service
Zakynthos Zakynthos International Airport Seasonal service
Template:HUN Budapest Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
Template:ISR Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport Focus city
Template:ITA Bergamo Orio al Serio International Airport Seasonal service
Rome Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport
Verona Verona Villafranca Airport Seasonal service
Template:POL Warsaw Warsaw Chopin Airport Service commencing 30 March 2025

|- |Template:ROM||Bucharest||Henri Coandă International Airport||Seasonal service |} |- |Template:ESP||Barcelona||Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport|| |-

Current fleet

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Bluebird Airways Boeing 737-800

As of August 2022, the Bluebird Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Bluebird Airways fleet
Aircraft Operational On order Seating capacity Remarks
Boeing 737-800 4 — 189
Total 4 —

Fleet development

In 2013, Bluebird Airways incorporated three aircraft on wet-lease to support seasonal scheduled services: an MD83 with registration YR-HBH (170 seats), and two MD82 models, YR-MDK and YR-OTN, each seating 160 passengers. On 26 July 2016, the airline expanded its fleet by adding a Boeing 737-3Y0 registered as 9H-TAS. That September, this aircraft commenced operations on the route between Heraklion and Tel Aviv. Subsequently, in July 2017, Bluebird Airways further enhanced its fleet with the addition of a Boeing 737-33A bearing the registration 9H-NOA.

At present, Bluebird Airways manages a fleet of four Boeing 737-800 Next Generation planes and aims to continue expanding its aircraft lineup to boost capacity and improve operational performance in the foreseeable future.

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