Pigeon Express

Pigeon Express is a Histalian low-cost airline based at Darsington International Airport, operating flights across Histalpol, the prominently the Mediterranean countries, as well as flights across the rest of Europe, Asia, and the Americas including the Caribbean. The airline operated both as a schedule airline where individual seats are bought and a charter airline where an entire plane is rented by a company which are then sold off, such as with travel agents.

The airlines headquarters are based in Darsington with other bases at Bastilia. Pigeon Express also runs an accompanying charter cargo airlines named Carrier Pigeon Express, with a combined total of around 5,500 Employees spanning across both companies.

Pigeon Airlines holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Type A Operating Licence which permits them to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats, and a Ministry of Transportation Civil Aviation Licence Class A Licence which gives the same permission but increases the permit to carry the same with 100 or more seat aircraft (compared to Class D with similar permits of a CAA Type A Operating Licence).

1970s
The airline was established in 1969 at the start of the jet age with the starting fleet of 2 Douglas DC-8 and 2 second hand Bristol Britannia from flag bearer RoyalHistal. The airlines first commercial jet service took to the air on 15 August 1972.

The company then got rid of it's 2 Bristol Britannias on the 9th of May in 1974 and brought in 2 Boeing 720Bs and 1 BAC One-Eleven 500. Which continued the Pigeon Express sevice through the 70s.