Skyways is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 that operates regional and domestic scheduled services. Based in Linköping

Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, its main hub is at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

Stockholm Arlanda Airport , is an international airport located in the Sigtuna Municipality of Sweden, near the town of Märsta, north of Stockholm and nearly , by road, south-east of Uppsala....

.

History

The airline was established in 1987 and was previously known as Avia. It acquired Salair on 15 July 1991 and Highland Air in March 1997. A partnership was forged with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) which acquired a 25% stake in April 1998. The owners were Salenia (72.7%), SAS (25%) and Janus (2.3%). The operational division of Skyways was separated from the sales division in 2009. During 2010 there was some restructuring regarding ownership. Scandinavian Airlines sold their share of the company at a loss, and eventually it was acquired by the asset management company Manswell Enterprises Limited, controlled by Ihor Kolomoyskyi

Ihor Kolomoyskyi

Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi , known commonly as Igor Kolomoisky is an Ukrainian business oligarch, he has Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship although dual citizenship is prohibited in Ukraine. Kolomoyskyi is the leading partner of the Privat Group and former chairman of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk....

. As of December 1 2010 the operation, sales and marketing of the airline functioned again as one unit under Avia Express

Avia Express

Avia Express is a charter airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its main base is Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.-History:The airline was founded in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Thuring in Fårösund, Sweden...

 continuing the use of the brand Skyways.

Destinations

Skyways operates to the following destinations :

Destinations

Destinations	Domestic (Sweden)	Airline
Bergen	No	Skyways
Berlin	No	Skyways
Birmingham	No	City Airline
Funäsfjällen	Yes	Skyways
Genevé	No	Skyways
Visby	Yes	Skyways, City Airline
Göteborg	Yes	Skyways
Halmstad	Yes	Skyways
Helsingfors	No	City Airline
Jönköping	No	Skyways
Karlstad	Yes	Skyways
Kiev	No	Skyways
Kristianstad	Yes	Skyways
Copenhagen	No	Skyways
Luleå	Yes	City Airline
Lyon	No	City Airline
Manchester	No	City Airline
Oskarshamn	Yes	Skyways
Prag	No	City Airline
Riga	No	City Airline
Röros	No	Skyways
Stavanger	No	Skyways, City Airline
Stockholm-Arlanda & Bromma Hub	Yes	Skyways
Sundsvall	Yes	Skyways
Tallinn	No	City Airline
Trollhättan	Yes	Golden Air
Umeå	Yes	City Airline
Växjö	Yes	Skyways
Zürich	No	City Airline
Åre/Östersund	Yes	City Airline
Örnsköldsvik	Yes	Höga Kusten Flyg

Fleet

The Skyways Express fleet includes the following aircraft (as of 23 August 2010) http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=JZW&al_op=1:

Skyways Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Options	Passengers	Notes
Fokker 50 Fokker F50 The Fokker 50 is a turboprop-powered airliner, designed as a refinement of and successor to the highly successful Fokker F27 Friendship. The Fokker 60 is a stretched freighter version of the Fokker 50. Both aircraft were built by Fokker in the Netherlands...	10	0	0	50
Embraer 145	2	0	0	48

External links

• Skyways Express