Question: Which airline was created in September 2005 with the merger of Sterling European and Maersk Air: Sterling Airlines or EasyJet?
Context: Air Business A/S, later Maersk Commuter I/S, was a Danish regional airline which operated between 1981 and 1990.  It was the first Danish airline to break the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) international monopoly and gain a conession to fly an international scheduled service out of Denmark.  Air Business was based at Esbjerg Airport and operated a fleet at first of a Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante and from 1984 two Short 360. AB Airlines was an airline with its head office in the Enterprise House on the property of London Stansted Airport in Uttlesford, Essex.  AB was one of the first 'low cost airlines' in England, preceding others such as EasyJet, Ryanair, and Go Fly.  It was created in 1993 by former Brymon Airways executives.  AB Airlines was formerly known as Air Bristol.  Initially the airline marketed itself as Air Belfast, reflecting its then principal route between Belfast International Airport and London Stansted.  Aircraft and crew were based at Belfast International Airport, London Stansted Airport and Bristol Filton Airport.  A base was then opened in 1994 at Shannon Airport to operate flights to London Gatwick Airport.  This operation was marketed as AB Shannon. Maersk Air A/S was a Danish airline which operated between 1969 and 2005.  Owned by the A. P. Møller–Mærsk Group, it operated a mix of scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo services.  Headquartered at Dragør, its main operating bases were Copenhagen Airport, Billund Airport and Esbjerg Airport.  The airline had offshore helicopter operations from 1975 to 1999 and had three airline subsidiaries: Maersk Air UK, Maersk Commuter and Star Air. Maersk Air Ltd, trading as Maersk Air UK, was a British airline which operated between 1993 and 2003.  It flew out of Birmingham Airport to domestic and European destinations under a British Airways franchise agreement.  The company was owed by the eponymous A. P. Møller–Mærsk Group through its Danish subsidiary airline Maersk Air and was based at the grounds of Birmingham Airport.  At its peak it operated twelve aircraft and had 490 employees. EasyJet (styled as easyJet; ) is a British airline, operating under the low-cost carrier model, based at London Luton Airport.  It operates domestic and international scheduled services on over 820 routes in more than 30 countries.  easyJet plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.  easyGroup Holdings Ltd (the investment vehicle of the airline's founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his family) is the largest shareholder with a 34.62% stake (as of July 2014).  It employs nearly 11,000 people, based throughout Europe but mainly in the UK. Danair A/S was an airline in Denmark, headquartered in Kastrup, Tårnby Municipality.  It was a joint venture between Scandinavian Airlines System (51% ownership), Maersk Air (34%) and Cimber Air.  The three companies marketed all domestic flights from the cooperation started in 1971 until the liberalization of the airline market in the European Union in 1995. Maersk Air was a Danish airline which operated between 1969 and 2005.  Owned by the eponymous A. P. Møller–Mærsk Group, it operated a mix of scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo services.  Headquartered at Dragør, its main operating bases were Copenhagen Airport, Billund Airport and Esbjerg Airport.  The airline had offshore helicopter operations from 1975 to 1999 and had three airline subsidiaries: Maersk Air UK, Maersk Commuter and Star Air. Maersk Air was a Danish airline which operated between 1970 and 2005.  Owned by the eponymous A. P. Møller–Mærsk Group, it operated a combination of domestic and international scheduled flights, and charter flights.  It included a helicopter and corporate jet division and had three wholly owned subsidiaries: Maersk Commuter, Maersk Air UK and Star Air.  Combined, they operated 193 aircraft of 26 models.  This included eleven models from Boeing, four models from Bombardier, two each from Hawker Siddeley, Fokker and Eurocopter.  The most popular aircraft was the Boeing 737, of which the airline operated 78 airframes of five variants.  Four aircraft have been involved in hull-lost accidents. Sterling Airlines A/S was a low-cost airline with its head office at Copenhagen Airport South in Dragør, Dragør Municipality, Denmark.  It was created in September 2005 through the merger of two Danish airlines — Sterling European Airlines and Maersk Air — which had been acquired by the Icelandic investment group Fons Eignarhaldsfélag a few months before for MDKK 500.  Fons was owned by Icelandic business tycoon Palmi Haraldsson.  One month after the merger, Sterling Airlines was sold to the FL Group for an amount of MDKK 1500.  In December 2006, Sterling was sold again, this time to Nordic Travel Holding.  On 6 January 2006, Hannes Smárason, CEO of the FL Group, stated that a merger of EasyJet and Sterling was a possibility. Cimber Sterling A/S, also known as Cimber Air and styled as Cimber Sterling, was a Danish airline based in Sønderborg, Sønderborg Municipality, Denmark, operating scheduled domestic and international services in co-operation with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Lufthansa.  Its main bases were Copenhagen Airport and Billund Airport, with a smaller base at Aalborg Airport.  The airline filed for bankruptcy on 3 May 2012.
Answer: Sterling Airlines