Skyways (Sweden) - Halted Operations

[PitotTube]

The company informed this earlier this morning:

Skyways Express AB with its daughter company City Airline AB have today been forced to stop all payments.
As a consequence all flights have also been cancelled with immediate effect. Both companies will apply for Bankruptcy in the morning.

Therefore there will be no use for passengers to go to the Airport.

The owners of the company have decided not to fund the company any longer and therefore the Board of Directors was forced to decide to stop all payments and to stop all flights.

“It feels very sad for the Company and for our passengers that will be immediately affected. It is also very sad for the personnel also at risk to lose their jobs. We have come far in turning the company around to turn the company around but after the Bankruptcy of Cimber it became almost impossible to continue” says Mikael Wångdahl CEO for Skyways and City Airline.

contact information will be updated soon.


Source: http://www.skyways.se

[Kittiwake]

Wasn't Skyways funded by the same entity as Cimber?

[Mazdata]

Yes it was!
Same as Cimber /sterling.

So. Who is gonna take over operations?
And with what?

[Towerman]

This is a convoluted case. The Ukranians who own Cimber also own Avia Express AKA Skyways/ Cityline. They also own DniProavia that is a large EMB 145 operator. They also own Skyways, a boutique brokerage and lessor in Windsor UK - not sure if / how they will be affected?

[KBPsen]

Just last week Skyways bought Cimber's maintenance division and now they also file for bankrupcy. It makes you wonder.

[313X]

They started a new route from Stockholm to Billund yesterday. Pretty fraudulent as they must have known this for a long time. Can't say I didn't see it coming though, they've been opening and closing routes every week for a year now.

City Airline lost all the quality they've had when Skyways bought them, in my opinion. Tickets got more expensive and they started cutting down on flights in the schedule. There were actually something special about City Airline, as they offered direct connections to a lot of destinations from their base in Gothenburg. I also remember the cabin crew as being very service-minded and friendly and the catering was pretty good too (two big sandwiches, free soft drinks and a can of Pringles on a 90 minutes flight in Economy Class). When Skyways bought them and City Airline announced the news on their Facebook page there wasn't a single positive comment from anyone, because everybody knew what was coming.

However, they did some fairly bad investments about two years ago when they bought a couple of MD-83s from SAS and started flying leisure traffic and charter to southern Europe. I don't think that worked out very well, as they returned the aircrafts to SAS and closed down all those routes after a short time in operation. Thay also hade some idea about building a new terminal in Gothenburg, which they eventually had to drop.

Skyways lengthened City Airlines life with a couple of months, but now they'll just gonna be remebered in the same way FlyMe are (Swedish airline infamous for starting new routes and offering a giant ticket sale the day before their bankruptcy, then claimed they couldn't return the price of the tickets to the customers).

[Mazdata]

It seems that an other local operator will continue some of the operations.
Sorry only in Swedish.




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[MKY661]

Sad News :(:(

There have been too many airlines gone this year and its sad to lose another two. Good luck for all of the workers find new jobs as soon as they can :)

[Aero Mad]

Seems that Flybe Nordic have their hotel on Mayfair then.