Sky Express SA
Sky Express SA | |
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IATA code : | GQ |
ICAO code : | SEH |
Call sign : | AIR CRETE |
Founding: | 2005 |
Seat: | Heraklion , Greece |
Home airport : | Heraklion Airport |
Management: | Agamemnon Kikerakis |
Passenger volume: | 120,000 |
Fleet size: | 11 (+ 1 order) |
Aims: | national |
Website: | www.skyexpress.gr |
Sky Express is a Greek regional airline based in Heraklion and based at Heraklion Airport .
history
Sky Express was founded in 2005 by Miltiadis Tsagarakis, a former Olympic Airways pilot . Tsagarakis was chief executive officer of Olympic Airways and was u. a. Advisor to the management . He was also the captain and pilot of the Greek Prime Minister's plane .
The Sky Express fleet initially only consisted of a BAe Jetstream 3102 with the serial number 829 and the aircraft registration SX-SKY , later another one was added. This was followed by two McDonnell Douglas MD-83s and two more Jetstream 41s. The MD-83s were mostly used for summer charter operations and were soon withdrawn from the fleet.
Destinations
Sky Express serves numerous destinations within Greece from Heraklion .
fleet
As of July 2020, the Sky Express fleet consists of 11 aircraft with an average age of 21.9 years:
Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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ATR 42-500 | 6th | 1 | one inactive | 48 |
ATR 72-500 | 5 | 70 | ||
total | 11 | 1 |
See also
Web links
- Sky Express website (Greek, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press report November 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 366 kB)
- ↑ Profile Miltiadis Tsagarakis (English) ( Memento of 10 August 2011 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ skyexpress.gr - Scheduled flights ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2017 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. (English), accessed on May 9, 2017
- ↑ Sky Express Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ skyexpress.gr - Fleet , accessed on May 9, 2017