Travel Service
Travel Service | |
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IATA code : | QS |
ICAO code : | TVS |
Call sign : | SKYTRAVEL |
Founding: | 1997 |
Operation stopped: | 2018 |
Seat: | Prague , Czech Republic |
Home airport : | Vaclav Havel Airport Prague |
Company form: | Akciová společnost ( joint stock company ) |
Number of employees: | 476 (2007) |
Fleet size: | 9 (+ 8 orders) |
Aims: | National and international |
Website: | smartwings.com |
Travel Service ceased operations in 2018. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
Travel Service is a Czech charter airline based in Prague and based at Prague Airport .
Companies
Travel Service was founded in 1997. 2001 the first subsidiary Travel Service Hungary followed in Budapest ; Smart Wings was founded in 2004 as a low-cost airline based in Prague . Travel Service has also had a subsidiary in Slovakia since 2010, Travel Service Slovakia of the same name .
Travel Service flies to over 250 airports a year and in 2008 transported 2.3 million passengers. Travel Service was a subsidiary of Icelandair which held 50.08% of the company. The company has belonged to the Unimex Group since February 2013; CEFC China Energy holds a minority stake of 49.92%.
In August 2013 Travel Service canceled the order for a single Boeing 787-8 in favor of a new order for three smaller Boeing 737 MAXs . At the beginning of 2017, the order was expanded to a total of eight machines.
In 2018 Travel Service was integrated into the subsidiary SmartWings .
subsidiary company
Over the years Travel Service has founded several subsidiaries, including its branches in neighboring countries, Travel Service Slovakia , Travel Service Hungary and Travel Service Polska, as well as the Czech low-cost airline SmartWings .
Basic data
Million CZK | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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Operating income | 4 391 | 4 844 | 5 818 | 6 511 |
Operating profit | 40 | 73 | 205 | 384 |
Result after taxes | (25) | 15th | 156 | 4th |
assets | 1 074 | 1 205 | 1 564 | 2 226 |
Equity | 70 | 62 | 237 | 158 |
liabilities | 1 004 | 1 143 | 1,327 | 2,068 |
fleet
As of March 2019, the Travel Service fleet consists of nine aircraft with an average age of 9.3 years:
Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks |
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Boeing 737-800 | 7th |
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Boeing 737-900 | 2 | ||
Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 8th | ||
total | 9 | 8th |
See also
Web links
- Travel Service website (English, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ TravelService.aero (English) ( Memento from April 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Český rozhlas: Passenger numbers in air traffic increase significantly August 18, 2017
- ↑ E15: Travel Service je znovu plně v českých rukou February 28, 2013
- ↑ idnes.cz: Čínská CEFC zvýšila podíl v aerolinkách Travel Service na polovinu March 31, 2016
- ↑ boerse-go.de - Boeing books first Dreamliner cancellation this year August 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b aerotelegraph.com - Travel Service increases order with Boeing , accessed on January 6, 2017.
- ↑ Travel Service becomes Smartwings Group. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Sbírka listin on justice.cz, IČ 25663135
- ^ Travel Service Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. January 16, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ OK-TVO Travel Service Boeing 737-800, planespotters.net, accessed on April 22, 2018.