Trans European Airways, usually referred to by its initials TEA, was a Belgian airline that operated from 1971 to 1991.

[1] TEA was founded in October 1970 by the Belgian tour operator TIFA and George P. Gutelman.

The company was involved in Operation Moses in 1984-1985, and then started to expand rapidly during the late 1980s, forming subsidiaries in the United Kingdom (TEA-UK), France (TEA-FRANCE), Italy (TEA-ITALY) and Switzerland (TEA-BASEL), but the global economic downturn in the early nineties, partly as a result of the Gulf War, caused it to go out of business on 27 September 1991.

Georges Gutelman later went on to found CityBird, which also failed in the aviation slump that followed the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The airline operated the following aircraft types at various times in its existence: Media related to Trans European Airways at Wikimedia Commons