Eagles Airlines signs FLYFokker Take Off contract including ABACUS.

Nieuw Vennep, The Netherlands, January 18th, 2011

Eagles Airlines, the recently founded new airline based at Marco Polo Airport in Venice, Italy and Fokker Services today signed a FLYFokker Take Off contract including ABACUS. The Take Off solution enables operators starting with Fokker aircraft to be fully operational rapidly while receiving nose to tail support.

The ABACUS contract covers exchange and repair services as well as presence of local on site leased stock at the Eagles Airlines home base in Venice.
Currently operating two Fokker 100 aircraft, Eagles Airlines has the intention to grow its Fokker fleet to five Fokker 100 aircraft by the end of 2011. “We are very pleased that Eagles Airlines has chosen for the Fokker product and Fokker Services as their full support provider. Furthermore, with Eagles Airlines the Fokker 100 operation has returned to Italy”, says Erik Goedhart, VP Marketing & Sales Fokker Services.

“We are very pleased with the performance of the Fokker 100 aircraft and the support obtained from Fokker Services. The start of a new airline is always challenging but we feel confident that we are fully supported by the Type Certificate Holder”, says Mauro Calvano, CEO Eagles Airlines.

About Eagles Airlines: Eagles Airlines is an airline from Venice, founded with 100% Italian capital that operates in the short and medium haul connecting some of the most strategic Italian airports and some European destinations that are of interest both for business and leisure. Founded in 2010 Eagles Airlines aims to develop and improve the routes for the mobility of the Italian North-East to the scale of the regions of Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia. With the intended future acquisition of aircraft for Alenia-Sukhoi Superjet in the medium term, Eagles Airlines will serve several destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean.

About Fokker Services
At present there are more than 600 Fokker aircraft operational across the world. The Fokker aircraft has earned a reputation for advanced technologies, comfort, operational reliability, low noise level and durability. Many consider the Fokker among the best mid- size aircraft ever built. Besides the Fokker aircraft, Fokker Services is serving operators with the Bombardier Dash 8 and other out of production aircraft, with its logistic flight hour program ABACUS.

Fokker Services is part of Fokker Technologies, which develops and produces advanced components and systems for the aerospace and defense industry, and supplies integrated maintenance services and products to aircraft owners and operators. In 2009 the group achieved a turnover of € 602 million with 3,500 employees.