newstodate.aero
Feb 12, 2019 (newstodate): The privately-owned Ukrainian charter and LCC carrier SkyUp Airlines has come off to a strong start, aiming at sustained growth through 2019.
The carrier landed its AOC on May 16, 2018, and was granted TCO status from EASA in November 2018, allowing it to operate flights to 28 European Union member states as well as to Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.
Already by the end of 2018, SkyUp was operating flights on 25 international and three domestic routes with a fleet comprising four Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700 aircraft carrying a total of 441,600 passengers on 2,322 flights in the first seven months of operation.
Plans are to grow the fleet to 10 aircraft in 2019, 12 in 2020, 14 in 2021 and up to 18 in 2022.
The airline is fully owned by Ukrainian capital, with 50 percent of the stake held by the two owners behind the country's leading tour operator JoinUp, Tatiana and Yuri Alba.
The carrier landed its AOC on May 16, 2018, and was granted TCO status from EASA in November 2018, allowing it to operate flights to 28 European Union member states as well as to Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.
Already by the end of 2018, SkyUp was operating flights on 25 international and three domestic routes with a fleet comprising four Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700 aircraft carrying a total of 441,600 passengers on 2,322 flights in the first seven months of operation.
Plans are to grow the fleet to 10 aircraft in 2019, 12 in 2020, 14 in 2021 and up to 18 in 2022.
The airline is fully owned by Ukrainian capital, with 50 percent of the stake held by the two owners behind the country's leading tour operator JoinUp, Tatiana and Yuri Alba.