West Atlantic Sweden
West Atlantic Sweden | |
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IATA code : | - |
ICAO code : | SWN |
Call sign : | AIR SWEDEN |
Founding: | 1962 |
Seat: | Gothenburg , Sweden |
Turnstile : | |
Home airport : | Lidköping |
Company form: | FROM |
IATA prefix code : | 869 |
Fleet size: | 25th |
Aims: | National and international |
Website: | www.westatlantic.eu |
West Atlantic Sweden AB (formerly West Air Sweden ) is a Swedish cargo airline based in Gothenburg and based at Lidköping Airport . It is a subsidiary of the West Atlantic AB freight group .
history
West Air was founded in 1962 by the Swedish merchant and coffee importer Anders Löfberg , who used a Piper PA-31 to market his products quickly and efficiently within Scandinavia.
In 1995 the company was bought by the current owners Göran Berglund and Gustaf Thureborn and renamed West Air Sweden . Initially, West Air also flew scheduled passenger flights, but these were abandoned in 1997 after the company received a night mail delivery contract from the Swedish Post Office. After that, the focus was on night flight shipments with smaller cargo planes, such as the Hawker-Siddeley HS 748 . The route network and the fleet have been continuously expanded. New customers such as FedEx, DHL, TNT, UPS and, since 2006, the Norwegian Post were acquired.
At the beginning of 2000, 60% of the flights were carried out in Central Europe. As a result, West Air founded a new subsidiary called West Air Luxembourg with its own crew base and flight control center in Luxembourg in order to be closer to its customers.
Together, both companies operate the largest BAe ATP freighter fleet in Europe. The originally used HS748s were gradually replaced by ATPs converted into freighters.
In October 2008 it was announced that the parent company West Air Europe is merging with the British air cargo company Atlantic Airlines (now West Atlantic UK ), also an operator of several ATPs, under the name West Atlantic .
In 2011 it was decided to gradually transfer the operational business of West Air Sweden to the Luxembourg subsidiary West Air Luxembourg . In December 2013, West Air Luxembourg was sold to FAST Logistics Luxembourg and renamed Smart Cargo in 2014 .
Destinations
West Atlantic Sweden mainly operates scheduled and ad hoc charter freight services as well as overnight express flights for the Swedish and Norwegian Post within Scandinavia. Other major customers were FedEx , DHL , TNT and UPS .
fleet
As of June 2020, West Atlantic Sweden's fleet consists of 25 cargo planes:
Aircraft type | active | ordered | Remarks |
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ATR 72 | 1 | ||
BAe ATP-F | 19th | ||
Boeing 767-200BDSF | 3 | ||
Bombardier CRJ200F | 2 | ||
total | 25th | - |
Incidents
- On January 8, 2016, a Bombardier CRJ200-PF with the aircraft registration SE-DUX crashed near Akkajaure in northern Sweden . The two pilots of the mail machine were killed in the accident. During the evaluation of the data recorder, several implausible parameters were identified, attributable to a malfunction of one of the redundant inertial measuring devices and the lack of regulations for such a case for the crews (see also West Air Sweden flight 294 ) .
See also
Web links
- Website of the West Atlantic Sweden (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ wort.lu - 34 people and 12 planes are moving , June 28, 2011
- ↑ sokluftfartyg. In: sle-p.transportstyrelsen.se. Retrieved June 23, 2020 (Swedish).
- ^ West Air Sweden Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. January 4, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .
- ^ Accident report CRJ 200 SE-DUX , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 23, 2019.