TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel company based in Crawley, West Sussex, formed on September 3, 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC with the tourism division of TUI AG, which held majority ownership. Operating across some 180 countries and serving about 30 million customers a year through passenger transport, travel agency and accommodation businesses, the company was delisted from the London Stock Exchange on December 17, 2014 when it merged fully into its German parent to form the unified TUI Group.
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What happened to the First Choice and Thomson names after TUI Travel was formed?
The two airlines were merged as Thomson Airways in 2008, and from 2011 the shops became Thomson featuring First Choice.
After the merger, the in-house airlines of the two sides, Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways, were brought together under Thomsonfly's air operator's certificate in May 2008, and the merged airline was rebranded Thomson Airways in November 2008. In October 2011 the company announced a two-year rebranding programme under which its shops would become Thomson featuring First Choice. The First Choice name was to be kept for all-inclusive package holidays sold by the combined network.
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1. TUI Travel - Wikipedia
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2007
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Public
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Crawley, England, UK
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- Operates In: Tourism Industry, Wikidata Q1476472
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