Danish Air Transport

Danish Air Transport

IATA DX ICAO DTR Callsign DANISH
Founded	1989
Operating bases	Esbjerg Airport Florø Airport
Fleet size	8
Destinations	7
Company slogan	The Flexible Choice
Headquarters	Vamdrup, Denmark
Key people	Jesper Rungholm (President and CEO) Lars Høeg (MD) Brian Madsen (Director of Flight Operations)
Website	www.dat.dk

Danish Air Transport, abbreviated DAT, is an airline based at Vamdrup, Denmark, operating scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo flights. Its main base is Vamdrup Kolding Airport, although there are no scheduled flights to or from this airport, with operational bases at Esbjerg Airport and Florø Airport.^[1] The airline is owned by the Rungholm family (60%) and private investors (40%), and is in turn the whole owner of DOT LT, an airline from Lithuania.^[1] Danish Air Transport also holds a 15 percent stake in the airline Vildanden from Norway.^{[citation needed]}

History

A DAT ATR 72-202QC taxiing at Düsseldorf International Airport, Germany, in (2009)

Danish Air Transport was founded and started operations in 1989, initially as a cargo airline. Soon special operations like the transport of live horses or supplies for the Paris Dakar Rally in Africa were offered, too. Passenger charter flights were added in 1994, with the subsequent launch scheduled services on 18 November 1996. In December 2004, DAT flew several scheduled passenger flights between Copenhagen and the Faroe Islands. If the trial had turned out successful, it would have launched regular service between these two countries from Easter 2005. However, the ATR-42s turned out to be not suitable for the route. After initially having thought about adding larger aircraft types to its fleet, the airline instead decided against operating on that route.^[2]

Destinations

Danish Air Transport operates the following scheduled services (at January 2010):^[3]

McDonnell Douglas MD-87 at Copenhagen Airport in 2011

• Denmark
  • Billund - Billund Airport
  • Esbjerg - Esbjerg Airport Base
• Norway
  • Bergen - Bergen Airport, Flesland
  • Florø - Florø Airport Base
  • Oslo - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
  • Stavanger - Stavanger Airport, Sola
  • Stord - Stord Airport, Sørstokken
  • Skien - Skien Airport, Geiteryggen

Scheduled flights to several additional destinations using DAT aircraft are operated for Vildanden.

Fleet

Beechcraft 1900D in 2005

ATR 42-300

As of January 2011, the Danish Air Transport fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 21 years:^[4]

Aircraft	In Service	Passengers[citation needed]	Notes
ATR 42	5	46	one aircraft operated for CEIBA International
ATR 72	2	68
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	1	165
McDonnell Douglas MD-87	1	135
Total	9

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 71. 2007-04-03. 
2. ^ FindAirticles.com
3. ^ Danish Air Transport flight schedule
4. ^ Danish Air Transport fleet list at planespotters.net

External links

• DAT Official website