Skyways Express
| Skyways Express | |
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| IATA code : | JZ |
| ICAO code : | SKX |
| Call sign : | SKY EXPRESS |
| Founding: | 1993 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
| Seat: |
Linkoping , Sweden
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| Turnstile : | |
| Home airport : | Stockholm / Arlanda |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | EuroBonus |
| Fleet size: | 29 |
| Aims: | national |
| Skyways Express ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Skyways Express AB was a Swedish regional airline based in Linköping .
history
The origins of Skyways Express go back to 1940, when the Thuring couple founded an airline called Avia . Avia engaged in taxi, postal and agricultural flights from 1945. In 1976 the company was sold to Gotland entrepreneurs Nils Björkman and Lennart Gustavsson. In 1984 Avia was taken over by the Gotlandsbolaget shipping company . In 1989 Avia and Salair (a Salenia airline) merged. In 1993, after the complete takeover by Salenia, the company was renamed Skyways .
By 1995 Skyways had grown to become Sweden's largest domestic airline, with a fleet of 13 Saab 340s and 3 Fokker F50s. 1997 Skyways took over the majority of shares in Highland Air and its route network. In the same year the cooperation with Scandinavian Airlines began .
After buying the Swedish Airborne in 1998, SAS took over a 25% stake in Salenia. After purchasing Air Express in 1999, the Skyways Group consisted of 4 airlines and served 35 destinations. After purchasing Flying Enterprise in 2000 for the airlines Skyways Express AB were merged , the company is located at 72.7% owned by Salenia , as well as 25% of SAS Scandinavian Airlines and 2.3% of Janus .
In April 2011 it was announced that Skyways Express had bought out competitor City Airline and wanted to fully integrate it. The entire fleet was taken over by the end of 2011, and the City Airline's website was also discontinued.
Skyways Express and the subsidiary City Airline filed for bankruptcy on May 22, 2012 and ceased operations.
aims
Skyways offered flights from its home base at Stockholm / Arlanda airport to numerous domestic Swedish destinations, as of August 2010 these are Borlänge , Halmstad , Jönköping , Karlstad , Kiruna , Kristianstad , Örnsköldsvik , Oskarshamn , Visby , Växjö and Røros in Norway .
There were also partnerships with SAS, Blue1 , Widerøe , Air Baltic , Estonian Air and Finnair .
fleet
As of January 2012, the Skyways fleet consisted of 29 aircraft:
- 2 ATR 72-200 (operated by Danish Air Transport )
- 2 Embraer ERJ 135
- 10 Embraer ERJ 145
- 11 Fokker 50 (operated by Avia Express )
- 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-87
- 2 Saab 2000 (operated by Carpatair )
See also
Web links
- Skyways Express website (Swedish, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ skyways.se - Skyways förvärvar City Airline ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Swedish) April 29, 2011
- ↑ skyways.se - Skyways Express AB with its daughter company City Airline AB have today been forced to stop all payments. (Swedish, English) May 22, 2012
- ↑ skyways.se - Network ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2009 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 August 29, 2010
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Skyways fleet (English) accessed on January 4, 2012
