History
The airline was established in 23 December 1996 as Air Plus Comet and started operations in 1 March 1997, with base at Madrid Barajas Airport. On 11 December 1996 Oasis airline ceased operations and their only aircraft, an Airbus A310, and a significant part of their staff (pilots, ground and office personnel, etc.) became the foundation of Air Plus Comet. In the initial hurry just after the takeover, and not having decided any commercial name for the airline yet, the ICAO code for the company was filled in simply as MPD, which stands for the last names of their three main directives (Mata, Pascual and Díaz).
It mainly operated long-haul charter services from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca to destinations in America and the Caribbean. It relaunched as a full service carrier under the Air Comet name in January 2007. It was wholly owned by Grupo Marsans.
In January 2007, Air Comet took over some of the now defunct Air Madrid airline's Latin American routes.
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