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| Founded | 2005 | |||
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| Hubs | Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis" | |||
| Focus cities | Rhodes "Diagoras" Airport Santorini Thira Airport Thessaloniki Macedonia International Airport |
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| Fleet size | 5 | |||
| Destinations | 21 (+2 seasonal) | |||
| Company slogan | The airline of Crete | |||
| Headquarters | Heraklion, Greece | |||
| Key people | Miltiadis Tsagkarakis (Chairman, CEO) George Mavrantonakis (EVP) |
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| Website | http://www.skyexpress.gr/ | |||
Sky Express is a regional airline based in Heraklion, Greece, primarily focused on scheduled flights between Heraklion and several smaller Aegean islands, avoiding transiting through Athens. Its main base is Heraklion International Airport. Sky Express also had a cargo division named Sky Express Aircargo and based in Athens International Airport, which ceased operations in early 2007.
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The airline was established in early 2005 by Cpt. Miltiadis Tsagkarakis, a former Olympic Airlines director-general and pilot as well as George Mavrantonakis, former Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager of Olympic Airlines and former Advisor to the President of Olympic Airways. Operations commenced in July 2005, including scheduled, charter and cargo flights, air-taxi, emergency medical services, excursions and sightseeing. Sky Express Aircargo was later established in a joint effort with the Finaval Group, focusing on cargo transport between Europe and the Far East.
Since August 2009, two MD-83s of Meelad Air have been flying under Sky Express' AOC.
The airline's initial logo was inspired by the flag of the Cretan State, a semi-independent state under the Ottoman Empire. The flag of the Cretan State was composed of a white cross extending to the edges of the flag, with the upper-hoist canton in red, featuring a white star symbolizing Ottoman sovereignty on the island, and the other squares in blue, symbolizing the Greeks of Crete. The flag has also been adopted as the flag of the Cretan independence movement recently. The logo was not well-received, and following complaints by the public in Greece, especially Cretans, the logo was changed. The company has said that they do not consider the flag to be offending, since it represented a milestone in the Cretan unification with the Kingdom of Greece, but changed their logo anyway in order to avoid any further confusion.[1]
Sky Express fly to the following destinations (as of December 2011):
As of October 2011, the fleet of Sky Express consists of the following aircraft:
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Passengers | Notes |
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| BAe Jetstream 41 | 5 | 30 | SX-ROD, SX-DIA, SX-SEB, SX-SEC, SX-SEH operate domestic services |
| Total | 5 | ||
Sky Express Aircargo used to operate a Boeing 747-200F which in August 2009 was stored at Chateauroux Airport, France
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