Smartwings

Smartwings
IATA code :	QS
ICAO code :	TVS
Call sign :	SKYTRAVEL
Founding:	2004
Seat:	Prague , Czech Republic
Home airport :	Prague airport
Fleet size:	34 (+ 9 orders)
Aims:	international
Website:	www.smartwings.com

Smartwings is a Czech low-cost airline based in Prague and a subsidiary of Travel Service .

history

Smartwings was founded in 2004 as a subsidiary of the Czech Travel Service . In 2004/05, two Boeing 737-500 planes were leased from Deutsche Lufthansa . On March 11, 2012, the last Boeing 737-500 from SmartWings was replaced by a Boeing 737-700 .

Between January and November 2018, the company was one of the most important service providers for the implementation of deportation flights in the Federal Republic of Germany. 45 of 157 deportation flights within this period were taken over by SmartWings.

The parent company Travel Service was integrated into the SmartWings Group in December 2018 and all associated airlines were renamed accordingly.

Destinations

Smartwings mainly offers flights from Prague and other Czech airports to cities and holiday destinations around the Mediterranean , for example to Barcelona , Rhodes and Tel Aviv . The company's longest flight is to Dubai .

fleet

As of March 2020, the Smartwings fleet consists of 34 aircraft with an average age of 9.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Boeing 737-700	2			148
Boeing 737-800	23		13 operated by Sunwing Airlines three operated by Air Transat	189
Boeing 737-900ER	2			212
Boeing 737 MAX 8	7th	9	inactive	189
total	34	9

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Smartwings  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Smartwings website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ smartwings.com - Contact ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 9, 2011 
2. ↑ List of fleets and names of the Lufthansa Group accessed on February 6, 2012.
3. ↑ Germania bankruptcy messes up plan for deportation flights. In: MDR.DE. Retrieved February 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Travel Service becomes Smartwings Group. Retrieved April 15, 2019 . 
5. ↑ smartwings.com - flight plan ( memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 9, 2011 
6. ↑ Smartwings Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .