Sky Airlines
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Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 2001 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 2013 | ||||||
Hubs | Antalya Airport | ||||||
Secondary hubs |
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Frequent-flyer program | Miles&Sky | ||||||
Subsidiaries | German Sky Airlines | ||||||
Fleet size | 5 | ||||||
Destinations | 50 | ||||||
Parent company | Kayi Group | ||||||
Headquarters | Antalya, Turkey | ||||||
Key people | Tahir Gorgulu (CEO) | ||||||
Website | www |
Sky Airlines was an airline which operated chartered flights. It was based in Antalya, Turkey,[1] operating on behalf of tour operators on short and medium haul routes into Turkey.
History[]
The company was established in 2000 and started operations in 2001. It was wholly owned by . In 2010, the airline started scheduled domestic operations in Turkey making it the 9th airline to enter the domestic market. It downsized operations for the winter season 2012–13, returning three Boeing 737-800s to their lessors.[2]
A subsidiary, German Sky Airlines, based in Düsseldorf, was launched in 2010. On 1 December 2012 it announced a suspension of services (due to the economic downturn) and returned two Boeing 737-800s to their lessors. The airline hoped to resume services in Spring 2013.[2]
On 4 June 2013, the airline filed for bankruptcy and ceased all flight operations with immediate effect.[3]
Destinations[]
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The airline also operated scheduled services to the following (as of December 2012)
- Albania
- Tirana - Tirana International Airport
- Austria
- Graz - Graz Airport
- Linz - Linz Airport
- Salzburg - Salzburg Airport
- Vienna - Vienna International Airport
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Czech
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Tallinn - Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport
- France
- Lyon - Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport
- Marseille - Marseille Provence Airport
- Mulhouse - EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
- Germany
- Berlin - Schönefeld Airport
- Cologne/Bonn - Cologne Bonn Airport
- Dortmund - Dortmund Airport
- Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf Airport
- Erfurt - Erfurt-Weimar Airport
- Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport
- Frankfurt-Hahn - Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
- Hamburg - Hamburg Airport
- Hanover - Hannover-Langenhagen Airport
- Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden - Baden Airpark
- Leipzig/Halle - Leipzig/Halle Airport
- Munich - Munich Airport
- Münster/Osnabrück - Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- Nuremberg - Nuremberg Airport
- Paderborn - Paderborn Lippstadt Airport
- Saarbrücken - Saarbrücken Airport
- Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport
- Zweibrücken - Zweibrücken Airport
- Iran
- Kazakhstan
- Almaty - Almaty International Airport
- Aktobe - Aktobe Airport
- Karaganda - Sary-Arka Airport
- Republic of Macedonia
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Bydgoszcz - Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport
- Katowice - Katowice International Airport
- Warsaw - Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Wrocław - Copernicus Airport Wrocław
- Norway
- Romania
- Bucharest - Henri Coandă International Airport
- Cluj-Napoca - Cluj-Napoca International Airport
- Timișoara - Traian Vuia International Airport
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Ljubjana - Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Adana - Adana Şakirpaşa Airport
- Antalya - Antalya Airport Hub
- Bodrum - Milas-Bodrum Airport Secondary hub
- Dalaman - Dalaman Airport Secondary hub
- Diyarbakır - Diyarbakır Airport
- Erzincan - Erzincan Airport
- Erzurum - Erzurum Airport
- Gaziantep - Oğuzeli Airport
- Istanbul - Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
- İzmir - Adnan Menderes Airport
- Kayseri - Erkilet International Airport
- Malatya - Malatya Erhaç Airport
- Samsun - Samsun-Çarşamba Airport
- Trabzon - Trabzon Airport
- Van - Van Ferit Melen Airport
Fleet[]
As of February 2013, the Sky Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft, which are all equipped with an all-economy class cabin layout:[4][5]
Aircraft | In fleet | Order | Passengers | Notes |
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Boeing 737-400 | 1(stored) | - | 170/150Y+12C | |
Boeing 737-900ER | 0 | 215 | leased from ALAFCO | |
Total | 1 |
References[]
- ^ "Contact Archived 2012-07-30 at archive.today." Sky Airlines. Retrieved on 21 February 2012. "Güzeloba mah. Ay – 1 Sok. No:1 07230 Lara – Antalya / Türkiye"
- ^ a b "German Sky Suspends Operations", Airliner World: 7, February 2013
- ^ "Sky Airlines hat den Betrieb eingestellt". Radio Bremen. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ^ "Sky Airlines - ch-aviation.com". ch-aviation.
- ^ Sky Airlines fleet Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
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- Defunct airlines of Turkey
- Turkish brands
- Airlines established in 2000
- Airlines disestablished in 2013
- Defunct charter airlines of Turkey
- Defunct charter airlines
- Turkish companies established in 2000
- 2013 disestablishments in Turkey
- Companies based in Antalya