31As the Advocate General has noted in points 48, 51, 53, 56 and 58 of his Opinion, other factors give a strong indication, in view of the criteria set out in paragraph 26 of this judgment, that the case in the main proceedings involved a ‘transfer of a business’ within the meaning of Article 1(1) of Directive 2001/23. Thus, TAP replaced AIA in the ongoing charter flight contracts with tour operators, which indicates that AIA’s customers were taken over by TAP, TAP developed charter flight business on routes previously served by AIA, which reflects the fact that TAP was pursuing activities previously carried on by AIA, employees who had been seconded to AIA were brought back into TAP for the purpose of carrying out identical tasks to those performed within AIA, which indicates that TAP took over some of the staff who worked for AIA, and TAP, from 1 May 1993, began operating some of the charter flight business that had been carried on by AIA until its winding up in February 1993, which attests to the fact that there was virtually no suspension of the activities transferred.
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