SKYEUROPE

'SkyEurope Airlines' is a low-cost airline with its main base at M. R. Stefanik Airport (BTS) in Bratislava, Slovakia, and other bases in Kraków, Prague, Budapest and Vienna.
With bases in Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia plus the two existing bases in Hungary and Poland, it was the first multi-based airline in Central Europe. The airline operates short-haul “point-to-point” scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services.

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History

Destinations

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was established in November 2001 and started operations on 13th February 2002 (domestic flight Bratislava-Kosice operated with 30 seat turboprop Embraer 120 ER Brasilia). It was founded by Alain Skowronek (Chairman) and Christian Mandl (Chief Executive) financed by EBRD, ABN-Amro and EU funds. The airline employs around 850 people. On 27 September 2005, the airline went public on the Vienna and Warsaw stock exchanges. The Initial public offering price was 6 EUR, valuing the company at 120 million euro.^[1]

Destinations

Main articles: SkyEurope destinations

SkyEurope currently operates a total of 99 routes to 40 destinations in 19 countries, making it Central Europe's largest low-cost airline.
Bratislava Airport is located within a one-hour drive of Vienna, Brno and Győr, covering a catchment area of four countries (Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia). SkyEurope operates a bus shuttle from Bratislava Airport to Vienna, 50 km away.
The airline announced in December 2006 that it would open a base at Vienna International Airport in March 2007, placing two brand new 737-700's operating sixteen routes. The opening of a base in Vienna reflects the success of the airline on the Austrian market - today already 20 percent of passengers departing and arriving from Bratislava are Austrians and on certain routes, Austrians account for over 50 percent of the share. In June 2007, the airline announced to expand the Vienna base to 6 aircraft of the Boeing 737-700 type, per October 2007.

Fleet

The SkyEurope fleet includes the following aircraft (as of September 2007) ^[2]
:

★ 14 Boeing 737-700 (32 altogether on order)
SkyEurope placed an order in 2005 for up to 32 new Boeing 737-700 aircraft (of which 16 are subject to purchase rights) to be delivered between 2006 and 2009, currently the largest order in Central Europe valued at US$1.76 billion at list prices. The 12 first aircraft will be financed and leased to SkyEurope by GECAS.

External links

★ SkyEurope

★ SkyEurope fleet

References

1. IPO of SkyEurope Holding on the Vienna Stock Exchange
2. http://www2.skyeurope.com/EN/Default.aspx?CatID=44