AIS Airlines


AIS Airlines is a Dutch airline headquartered at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands. It operates charter and wet lease services all over Europe.
The AIS Group also includes AIS Technics which provides technical support and the AIS Flight Academy. The AIS Flight Academy is a flight school located at Lelystad Airport and is engaged in the integrated training of commercial pilots. In addition, to the flight school, AIS has a so-called 'type training' for the Jetstream 31/32. AIS's Jetstream full flight simulator is the only approved simulator for this aircraft type in the world. The Group consist of: AIS Airlines, AIS Flight Academy, AIS CAMO, AIS SIM Department and AIS Development.
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Overview

The company started as a flight school and then expanded into the airline business.
The airline aquirred two British Aerospace Jetstream 32 turboprop aircraft, PH-CCI and PH-DCI. Upon receiving the Air Operator Certificate in 2012, AIS Airlines started wet lease operations for Manx2, Airlink, Krohn Air and Direktflyg.
First routes under own commercial responsibility were started between Munster Osnabruck and Stuttgart. An expansion of scheduled routes, within Germany, in 2014, included Bremen to Zurich, some of which were formerly served by the now-defunct OLT Express Germany.
A Jetstream 31, registered G-OAKI flew for a short period for the airline before being decommissioned, this aircraft was never added to the Dutch aircraft register. Later two former Krohn air aircraft were added to the fleet, PH-BCI and PH-HCI.
Flights from Bremen to Luxembourg, Malmö and Nuremberg were announced for autumn 2014, but these plans were later cancelled. Bremen - Zurich was cancelled a year later, only Munster - Stuttgart remained.
By January 2015, AIS Airlines additionally took over some Swedish domestic routes under its own brand, that it formerly operated on behalf of Direktflyg. These routes included:
  • Borlange - Gotenborg
  • Borlange via Orebro to Malmo
  • Sveg - Mora - Stockholm Arlanda
  • Torsby - Hagfors - Stockholm Arlanda
  • Ostersund - Umea
Four former Direktflyg aircraft were added to the fleet: PH-NCI, PH-OCI, PH-RCI and much later PH-FCI. PH-ICI never made it into the fleet, in 2021 the aircraft was transported by road from Sweden to the AIS Airlines headquarter to be converted into an electric aircraft prototype.
Starting from 2016, AIS Airlines operated a domestic route network within Croatia with one BAe Jetstream 32, stationed in Osijek on behalf of Trade Air, routes included:
  • Osijek - Zagreb
  • Osijek - Rijeka - Split - Dubrovnik
  • Osijek - Pula - Split
The contract was canceled in 2018 in favor of Vanair.
In 2018 flights from Borlange were cancelled by the airline. Not long after that, AIS Airlines / Direktflyg lost the Swedish PSO routes to Jonair.
In 2019 AIS Airlines started cooperation with Groningen Airport Eelde to operate flights from Eelde to Copenhagen, the network was later connected to the airlines already existing network in Munster.
On February 27, 2020, AIS Airlines discontinued the Münster-Osnabrück route to Copenhagen. Also the long existing Munster to Stuttgart route ceased to exist post COVID.
As of October 2021, AIS Airlines only operated the Torsby route to Stockholm Arlanda via Hagfors on behalf of Amapola Flyg.
In 2023 Amapola Flyg lost these routes. Instead AIS Airlines won contracts in Denmark between 2023 until cooperation was ended in September 2025.
At its peak, the AIS Airlines route network and fleet peaked at eight operational aircraft and seven routes. From 2018, the fleet and route network entered a gradual decline:
  • Starting with PH-CCI, gradually more aircraft are observed being cannibalized for parts and therefore no longer airworthy.
  • First routes in Sweden, flown under own commercial responsibility out of Borlange were canceled by the airline.
  • The cooperation with Trade Air fell through in 2018.
  • AIS Airlines / Direktflyg lost the Swedish PSO network in favor of Jonair.
  • PH-RCI suffered a runway excursion and never returned to an airworthy state.
  • Own routes from Munster via Groningen to Copenhagen ceased in 2020. Also the long running Munster - Stuttgart route ceased to exist post COVID.
  • The Amapola wetlease for the last Swedish PSO route ceased in 2023.
  • Finally, Karup airport ended cooperation with AIS Airlines in September 2025.
  • As of December 2025, only 3 of the original 8 Jetstream 32 aircraft have a valid Airworthiness Review Certificate, none have been observed operating since September 2025.
As of September 2025, AIS Airlines does not operate any scheduled services. The current status of the airline is unknown.

Destinations

AIS Airlines serves the following scheduled route:
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Fleet

, AIS Airlines operates the following aircraft:

Electrification of the British Aerospace Jetstream 32

AIS Development is concentrating on new developments in electric flying. AIS is in the process of developing an electric type of Jetstream. The Jetstream is one of the first to be developed in terms of size and possibilities.
The project was expected to run from the 15th of February 2021 to the 31st of December 2023.

Incidents

On 8 October 2019, a BAe Jetstream 32 departing Münster/Osnabrück could not be rotated and after beginning rejected takeoff from well above V1, the aircraft departed the side of the runway passing close to another aircraft at high speed before regaining the runway for the remainder of its deceleration. The Investigation noted that the flight was the first supervised line training sector for the very inexperienced First Officer but attributed the whole event to the Training Captain's poor performance which had, apart many from other matters, led indirectly to the inability to rotate and to the subsequent directional control problem.