SkyTeam (airline)
| SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH | |
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| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | XST |
| Call sign : | SKYTEAM |
| Founding: | 1997 |
| Operation stopped: | 2002 |
| Seat: |
Kelsterbach , Germany
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| Home airport : | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Manfred Nimführ |
| Number of employees: | 45 (2001) |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH ceased operations in 2002. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The SkyTeam airline GmbH (also ECCS Air Cargo Service ) was a German airline with headquarters in Kelsterbach .
History and destinations
SkyTeam was founded in November 1997 and from April of the following year the company carried out cargo flights for DHL with its first Fokker F-27-500 . In July 1998, a second F-27-500 in passenger configuration joined the fleet before SkyTeam joined the European Regions Airline Association in March 1999 . Towards October, the company received a third F-27-500 in a freight configuration and, for example, transported military mail between Germany and Macedonia on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defense for the KFOR ; Leipzig, London, Paris and Cologne / Bonn were served for DHL. The use of a CASA CN-235 in quick-change configuration, which was later to be followed by a CASA C-295 , had to be discarded by SkyTeam because the manufacturer refused to use it in German airspace make any necessary modifications free of charge.
In April 2000, the newly founded, independent SkyTeam alliance was allowed to use the identical branding at the same time. SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH in Germany held the naming rights to the latter. In return, the alliance announced a cooperation on European regional flight routes, for which the use of additional aircraft was planned. Regardless of this, SkyTeam registered the trademark “Magic Airways - Quality Airlift” with the European Intellectual Property Office in October , even though it should no longer be used until the company ceased operations. Towards the end of the same year, the previously existing in-house maintenance facility was relocated to Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport after the available space in Frankfurt had become too small.
In mid-2001 SkyTeam received its first ATR 72-200 , which was used in operational flight operations from September. A second ATR 72, also leased by European Air Express , was used for a time.
Between March and December 2002, the flight was closed down and because any assets the company later ex officio deleted from the commercial register.
fleet
The SkyTeam fleet consisted of the following five machines; a sixth Fokker F-27-200, which was already prepared for handover, was no longer accepted due to the cessation of operations:
| Aircraft type | number | Aircraft registration | Commissioning | annotation |
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| ATR 72-212 | 2 | D-ACCC | 2001 | rented by European Air Express |
| D-ADDD | 2001 | |||
| Fokker F-27-500 Friendship | 3 | D-ACCS | 1998 | |
| D-ACCT | 1999 | |||
| D-ADUP | 1998 | |||
| total | 5 |
See also
Web links
- SkyTeam website in fragmentary form ( Memento from April 2, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulrich Klee et al .: jp airline-fleets international 2001/02 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 2001, ISBN 978-3-85758-135-9 , pp. 116 (English).
- ↑ SkyTeam forced to shelve Spanish transport plan . In: Flight International . tape 156 , no. 4697 . Reed Business Publishing, October 6, 1999, ISSN 0015-3710 , p. 12 (English, flightglobal.com [accessed July 24, 2017]).
- ^ Magic Airways - Quality Airlift 001905942. In: European Union Intellectual Property Office. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
- ↑ SkyTeam - Pressroom. In: sky-team.com. Archived from the original on December 24, 2002 ; accessed on July 24, 2017 (English).
- ^ SkyTeam Company. In: sky-team.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2001 ; accessed on July 24, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b Ulrich Klee et al .: jp airline-fleets international 2002/03 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 2002, ISBN 978-3-85758-136-6 , pp. 116 (English).
- ↑ Ulrich Klee et al .: jp airline-fleets international 2003/04 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 2003, ISBN 978-3-85758-137-3 , pp. 735 (English).
- ↑ Joint register portal of the federal states (register type HRB , register number 83591 , register court Darmstadt ; activate the checkbox also find deleted companies ), accessed on July 24, 2017.
- ↑ SkyTeam. In: AeroTransport Data Bank. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
