The story
Star Airways was founded by several Albanian and Italian investors and received its operating license in June 2009. On 3 April 2010, Star Airways received its first aircraft, an Airbus A320-231 registered ZA-RED and previously operated by the Mexican airline Mexicana de Aviación. The second aircraft, an Airbus A320-211 previously operated by Nouvelair, arrived in May of the same year. Both aircraft were obtaine through the leasing company ILFC.
On 7 June 2010, Star Airways commenced operations with two McDonnell Douglas MD-82 jetliners supplied by ItAli Airlines as the Albanian air carrier had not received approval to operate with its own aircraft. Starting with scheduled flights from Tirana to several Italian cities, there were plans to expand routes to other cities such as Istanbul, Antalya, Thessaloniki and Düsseldorf.
However, in the summer of 2010, the Albanian aviation authority withdrew the operating license and all flight operations were stopped completely in the following month of September.
From Wikipedia’s article on Star Airways, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4