Solaseed Air

Solaseed Air

IATA LQ ICAO SNJ Callsign NEWSKY
Founded	2002 (as Skynet Asia Airways)
Fleet size	13
Destinations	8
Parent company	Miyakoh Holdings
Headquarters	Miyazaki Airport Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture
Website	www.skynetasia.co.jp

Solaseed Air (ソラシド エア, Sorashido Ea), incorporated as Skynet Asia Airways (スカイネットアジア航空株式会社, Sukainetto Ajia Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha, SNA) is a low-cost airline headquartered on the property of Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.

It operates services mainly between Miyazaki/Kumamoto/Nagasaki (Kyushu Island) and Tokyo. Beginning September 2007, flights to Kagoshima were scheduled to be introduced. Recently, the airline has announced it will offer discounts for foreign tourists that are up to 65% lower than regular fares. It is the first time a Japanese airline has offered a discount fare aimed only at tourists from abroad.^[1] The airline changed its branding to Solaseed Air in July 2011.^[2]

History

Miyazaki Airport, the location of the headquarters

The airline was established in May 2002 and started operations in July 2002. It was formerly Pan Asia Airlines. It launched services as the fourth new airline in a deregulated Japanese market since 1998. The airline is owned by the Industrial Revitalisation Corporation of Japan (56.9%) and Mera Electric Industrial Corporation (11.7%).

Corporate affairs

Solaseed established the head office in the second floor of Miyazaki Airport Building (宮崎空港ビル, Miyazaki Kūkō Biru) in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.^[3] It previously had a headquarters in another facility in Miyazaki City.^[4] The headquarters later moved to the SNA Center (SNAセンター SNA Sentā) in the Again Building (アゲインビル Agein Biru) in Miyazaki.^[5]

Destinations

A Skynet Asia Airways Boeing 737-400 taking off from Haneda International Airport, Tokyo. (2007)

Solaseed Air operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of January 2013)

• Haneda Airport - Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita
• Naha Airport - Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kobe (for ANA All Nippon Airways)

Future plans include route expansion to key cities in Japan and across Asia.

Fleet

Boeing 737-800(JA806X)

Fleet as of September 2013, the Solaseed Air fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 7.3 years:^[6]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skynet Asia Airways.

• Official website
• Official web site (Japanese)
• * (Japanese, PDF)
• Skynet Asia Airways fleet
• Skynet Asia Airways aircraft

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