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| Founded | 17 December 1994 (as Sabre Airways) | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 12 September 2008 | ||||||
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| Alliance | None | ||||||
| Subsidiaries | XL Airways Ireland XL Holidays Ltd | ||||||
| Destinations | 40 | ||||||
| Parent company | XL Leisure Group | ||||||
| Headquarters | Crawley, England | ||||||
| Key people | CEO Phil Wyatt Chairman Peter Owen | ||||||
| Total assets | XL Holidays | ||||||
XL Airways was a British low-cost charter and scheduled airline, which ceased operations when it went into administration on 12 September 2008. Its headquarters were in Crawley, West Sussex, near London Gatwick Airport. It was part of the XL Leisure Group. From its three bases at London Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow, the airline provided short-haul and long-haul charter services, predominantly to leisure destinations.
The airline also operated services from Newcastle, Bristol, East Midlands, Birmingham and Ireland West.[citation needed] Two other airlines (both now also defunct as of 2019) within the group used the XL Airways branding: XL Airways France and XL Airways Germany, and were not at the time affected by the insolvency of the XL Leisure Group.[1]