Danube Wings

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Danube Wings
ATR 72-200 from Danube Wings
IATA code : V5
ICAO code : VPA
Call sign : VIP TAXI
Founding: 2008
Operation stopped: 2013
Seat: Bratislava , Slovakia
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Home airport : Bratislava Airport
Fleet size: 2
Aims: national and continental
Website: danubewings.eu
Danube Wings ceased operations in 2013. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Danube Wings was a Slovak airline based in Bratislava and based at Bratislava Airport .

history

Danube Wings was founded by VIP WINGS in 2008 and has gradually taken on line and charter services.

In January 2013, the cancellation of the seasonal routes within France was announced. In October of the same year Danube Wings announced the immediate cancellation of their last remaining line connection from Bratislava to Košice . From now on only charter flights would be carried out. At the same time, however, it was reported that the company had switched off its contact options.

In December 2013 it was finally reported that operations had been completely shut down.

Destinations

Since the beginning of October 2013, Danube Wings only offered charter flights. Before that, it served a changing network between numerous European cities and holiday destinations. For example, it flew from Bratislava to London , Brussels , Warsaw and Milan as well as Split , Zadar and Rijeka in Croatia . Domestic flights within Slovakia were also offered. In mid-2012, Danube Wings also took over the Cologne - Rimini route from the insolvent airline Wind Jet . Since July 27, 2012, she also operated the Cambridge - Dole route . In addition to Cambridge, Danube Wings also served Girona , Nice and Bastia from Dole .

fleet

As of October 2013, the Danube Wings fleet consisted of two aircraft:

See also

Web links

Commons : Danube Wings  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ch-aviation.ch - DanubeWings drops French regional routes (English) January 17, 2013
  2. a b ch-aviation.ch - DanubeWings suspends scheduled operations effective immediately (English) October 9, 2013
  3. austrianaviation.net - Danube Wings ceases flight operations ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 9, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.austrianaviation.net
  4. ch-aviation.ch - Slovakia's DanubeWings suspends operations indefinitely (English) December 10, 2013
  5. ch-aviation.ch - DanubeWings (English) accessed on October 9, 2013