Azores Airlines is a Portuguese carried based in the Azores archipelago, out in the North Atlantic.
The airline began life as OceanAir in 1990, was taken over by SATA Air Açores (and airline dating back to the 1940s) in 1995. It was rebranded as SATA International to operate alongside the older carrier’s regional services.
It was renamed Azores Airlines in 2015 and has since modernised its fleet and corporate branding.
Today it remains a subsidiary of SATA Air Açores and is based at Ponta Delgada airport, alongside a hub at Lisbon.
The airline serves around 20 destinations, stretching across Europe and to North America.
Azores Airlines Aircraft Liveries
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Following its rebrand, and coinciding with the delivery of a fleet of brand new Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft, Azores Airlines started introducing a new livery which varies from aircraft to aircraft.
Many feature inspiring words alongside the açor logo (a bird native to the Azores). These words are meant to evoke the feelings of visiting the Azores islands.
The A320neo fleet features the words: “Natural”, “Pure”, “Dream” and “Unique”.
Photo (c) Azores Airlines
The words featured include: “Breathe”, “Wonder”, “Magical”, “Inspire” and “Peaceful” on the A321neo fleet.
Photo (c) Azores Airlines
Photo (c) Tony Hisgett
Photo (c) BriYYZ
Here are some images of the Azores Airlines aircraft liveries.
Photo (c) BriYYZ
Photo (c) Alan Wilson
Which is your favourite? Leave a comment below!
Title image (c) Azores Airlines
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Hello. Just to put things straight, Azores Airlines flies 3x A320ceo CS-TKK “Unique”, CS-TKP “Dream” and CS-TKQ “Natural”
The recent A320Neo are CS-TSK “Pure” and CS-TSM “Natural” intended to replace CS-TKQ A320ceo also named “Natural” which is yet to be phased out.
As to the A321Neo fleet, names are correct: CS-TSF “Breathe”, CS-TSG “Wonder”, CS-TSH “Magical”, CS-TSI “Inspire” and CS-TSJ “Peaceful”.
Azores Airlines had an order for one A321XLR version but this order was changed for another A320Neo family aircraft, to be decided at a later date.