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| Founded | 14 February 2013 | ||||||
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| Operating bases | Bratislava Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Bratislava, Slovakia | ||||||
| Key people | Daniel Ferjanček (CEO) | ||||||
| Employees | 200 | ||||||
| Website | go2sky.aero | ||||||
Go2Sky is a Slovak ACMI specialist and charter airline headquartered in Bratislava and based at Bratislava Airport.
Go2Sky was founded on 14 February 2013. The Slovak airline offered its aircraft for non-scheduled charter operations of passengers, cargo and mail. Furthermore, the airline offered lease ACMI (wet-lease) of their aircraft, designed for other airlines (AOC holder) and ad hoc charter flights. [1] Go2Sky is IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) certified since 2015.
For the summer season 2014, the airline had signed a wet-lease contract with the Italian charter airline Mistral Air for two aircraft and Hamburg Airways for one airframe. In 2015 Go2Sky leased aircraft to Mistral Air, Ukraine International, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Royal Air Maroc and Arkia. In 2016 to Czech Airlines, Mistral Air, Travel Service (airline), AlbaStar and Norwegian Air Shuttle. They also operated flights for Adria Airways with their B737-800 aircraft. Go2Sky secured Spring/Summer season 2019 wet-lease contracts for two B737-800s to Enter Air of Poland and one B737-800 to Corendon Airlines of Turkey.
On 19 August 2020, despite profits over the last two years, it was announced that Go2Sky would cease operations on 1 September 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst continuing to hold their AOC. [2] However later that year it was decided that the airline would resume operations the following year and Go2Sky resumed operations in August 2021, operating for Corendon Airlines between Germany and various holiday destinations.
The Go2Sky fleet consisted of the following aircraft: [3]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| Boeing 737-800 | 3 | — | 189 | |
| Total | 3 | — | ||
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