Air Altruras

**Air Altruras** is the national flagship carrier of the Altruras Archipelago, established in 1967. Its main hub is Camberwell International Airport, and although it has hubs in other islands, Air Altruras began focusing on international travel recently.

Beginning January 2023, Air Altruras is merged into Air Britannia, while shifting the focus of the airline to the mainland US (especially northern California and southern Oregon the tradition region of American Britannia) remains the flag carrier of the Altruras Archipelago. The merged airline retains the Air Britannia identity but keeps the Air Altruras fleet. The airline is now expected to compete with giants such as United Airlines, Delta Airlines, and American Airlines as Air Britannia emphasizes excellent customer service and maintenance records.

## History

The formation of Air Altruras spans more than 8 decades dating back to 1934, when Western Air Transport's Altruras Archipelago branch split off from its mainland branch to form Altruras Air Services. Initially, the service was mail only from San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles to the main archipelago airports of Altruras, Evanshire, Estlenhar and Laronia, though by 1940 passenger services began between LA, San Francisco and Altruras.

During the Cold War years, Altruras Air Services expanded relatively slowly, and remained a primarily regional airline up until it was rebranded as Air Altruras in 1967. It was not until that year when Boeing 707 aircraft were introduced, flying daily between Camberwell and Honolulu, to immediate success. But long term, these successes were not to last long, unless Air Altruras attempted a different approach to its retention strategy.

In 1973, the Evanshire Super Pro League of Auto Racing, or ESPLAR, was born. As airlines like American and United already had flights from San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and Portland to Altruras at the time, Air Altruras intended to serve destinations who were not covered by the so-called "Big Four" of American, United, Northwest and Pan Am. Largely, Portland and Sacramento were natural fits for Air Altruras to kickstart its mainstay passenger services from Evanshire and Altruras to the US West Coast Mainland.

The early 1980s saw rapid growth for Air Altruras, as the airline invested more into the Midwest and South. ESPLAR's 1st Golden Age also had an immediate effect on the airline, as airlines such as American and United were unable to keep up with rising demand during ESPLAR race weekends. Air Altruras prepared for this eventuality by ordering a large number of Boeing 737-300 aircraft in 1981, and by 1984 more than 50 of these aircraft were in service to destinations such as Denver, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, Houston, Phoenix, Oklahoma City and Kansas City. By the end of the 1980s, Air Altruras had become a major regional airline

## Services

Air Altruras caters to both leisure passengers, as well as passengers with an-ESPLAR oriented-approach. Many of the airline's hotel facilities are leased to them through ESPLAR sponsorship money, and are open to ESPLAR fans who fly to the series races every weekend. While Leisure passengers don't get to experience some of the benefits that ESPLAR Air Members have, they tend to have other benefits such as lower hotel costs and food that is prepared carefully to fullest extent.

Additional benefits for Air Altruras passengers include early access to publications written by ESPLAR drivers and early exclusive streaming to ESPLAR-oriented programming that feature ESPLAR drivers, or feature characters voiced by ESPLAR drivers.

Air Altruras usually does not provide exclusive shuttle services, but routinely provides them for ESPLAR events, and usually are crowded to the last seat.

Air Altruras does check-ins both in-person and electronically, and electronic boarding has been implemented in every Air Altruras flight since late 2022. It also leases its own customized waiting rooms at certain airports.

Since 2023, Air Altruras has an exclusive Elite Club for the most dedicated international ESPLAR fans who are first priority in the limited high-demand Boeing 787-10 aircraft routes which are the only aircraft to feature first class. On-board services rival even the best airlines in this field, and on-board safety is top-quality.

## Fleet and Destinations

Altruras' geography makes train-based travel difficult, and with the first such train lines not expected to commence service until 2028 at the earliest, Air Altruras is expected to maintain most domestic services for the time being.

Air Altruras operates only Boeing aircraft. Since 2005, Air Altruras uses mainly Boeing 717 aircraft (24) for its domestic services. For these routes, they operate mostly on a budget-airline model since these are largely commuter routes between different islands of the archipelago.

For US Mainland services, the airline uses Boeing 737-700, and 737-800s in service since 2012. The airline operates to all 50 states and largely serves cities with a large ESPLAR presence such as Prescott, Arizona, Colorado Springs, and Pensacola, Florida. Air Altruras largely avoids Boeing 737MAX aircraft for safety reasons, and is a launch customer for Boeing's MoM aircraft which is codenamed (provisionally) as Boeing 808, which would follow the 8x8 naming system. The Boeing 808 is expected to launch in 2025 at the earliest.

Until relatively recently, Air Altruras did not operate international services, but with ESPLAR expanding globally, it felt a need to begin international services to supplement ESPLAR events. From 1995-2014, Air Altruras operated Boeing 767-300 and Boeing 767-400 aircraft, which were few in number and were usually on routes which were popular with international ESPLAR fans. With expanding series interest, Air Altruras took on a large order of Boeing 787-800 (52) and 787-900 (48) and focused on point-to-point model between Altruras' 4 major airports (Camberwell, Tyrgard, Rockport, Altruras) and underserved airports. Some of these were from the archipelago to airports in Indonesia which lacked international destinations outside of the ASEAN region, including Makassar, Bali, Surabaya, Banda Aceh, and Batam, as well as others which the country's main airlines neglect, such as Naha in Okinawa, Nantes in Brittany (France) and Daegu in Korea. Typically, these routes would be operated by the native country's main airlines to which outbound Altruras flights would terminate at.

## Incidents

To this day, only 1 accident has occured in Air Altruras, and it was before the 2012 Evanshire 700 when Air Altruras Flight 778 (a Boeing 767-400) landed without its landing gear after a short caused it to fail. No fatal accidents have ever occurred in the airline's entire history.