Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia
Scale 1-200 model
Airbus A330-200
Registration:
OY-VKF (MSN 309)
OY-VKK (MSN 271)
Deflected white display stand - Original printed box
Airline Color Scheme - Introduced 2013
Collectible Model Plane
Aircraft type: Airbus A330-243
Configuration: W49Y273
Engines: 2x RR Trent 772B-60
Lenght 59,00m - Wing span 60,30m - Height 16,83m
IATA: DK
ICAO: VKG
Callsign: VIKING
Country: Denmark
Started Operations: 8 May 2008
Ceased operations: 30 Oct 2019
Group - Part of: Thomas Cook Group
Headquarters: Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH / EKCH) Denmark
Bases: Oslo Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) Norway - Stockholm Arlanda (ARN / ESSA) Sweden - Helsinki Vantaa (HEL / EFHK) Finland
Brand: PPC
Colors: Black - Grey - Orange - Silver - White - Yellow
Material: Synthetic
Condition: New
Dimensions (cm): Box: 5 x 8 x 32
Weight (g): 173
History:
Thomas Cook, (born November 22, 1808, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England - died July 18, 1892, Leicester, Leicestershire), English innovator of the conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.
Cook left school at the age of 10 and worked at various jobs until 1828, when he became a Baptist missionary. In 1841 he persuaded the Midland Counties Railway Company to run a special train between Leicester and Loughborough for a temperance meeting on July 5. It was believed to have been the first publicly advertised excursion train in England. Three years later the railway agreed to make the arrangement permanent if Cook would provide passengers for the excursion trains. During the Paris Exposition of 1855, Cook conducted excursions from Leicester to Calais, France. The next year he led his first Grand Tour of Europe.
In the early 1860s he ceased to conduct personal tours and became an agent for the sale of domestic and overseas travel tickets. His firm took on military transport and postal services for England and Egypt during the 1880s. On his death the business passed to his only son, John Mason Cook (1834 - 1899), who had been his father's partner since 1864. The company passed to Cook's grandsons in 1899 and remained in the family until 1928. In 1972 the company was renamed Thomas Cook, and in 2001 it was wholly owned by Thomas Cook AG, one of the largest travel groups in the world.