Smart Wings is a low-cost airline based in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. It operates services to several European destinations.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 2004 and is wholly owned by the Czech airline Travel Service

Travel Service (Czech Republic)

Travel Service Airlines is an airline based in the Czech Republic, a subsidiary of Icelandair Group. It has a Budapest-based subsidiary Travel Service Kft...

, a 66% subsidiary of Icelandair Group

Icelandair Group

Icelandair Group hf is an Icelandic travel industry corporation, the owner of the airline Icelandair and numerous other travel industry companies...

.

Smart Wings adopted the IATA code of the now defunct slovakian airline Tatra Airlines, which operated from 1991 to 1998.

Fleet

The Smart Wings fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 15 May 2010):

Smart Wings Fleet

Type	In Fleet	Passengers (Economy)
Boeing 737-500	2	131

Smart Wings also operates 8 Boeing 737-800 aircraft which are painted in the colours of Travel Service

Travel Service

Travel Service may refer to one of three sister European airlines:* Travel Service * Travel Service * Travel Service...

airline.

External links

• Official website