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New
Boeing 737-500 arrives at SkyEurope’s Budapest base
The latest addition to SkyEurope’s fleet will be based at Ferihegy
1 airport
Budapest,
20 October 2003
SkyEurope Airlines is proud to announce that today its Boeing
737-500 arrived at Budapest Ferihegy 1 airport from Phoenix, USA.
The aircraft is planned to operate daily low-fare flights from
London Stansted to Budapest from 14 November 2003.
“The arrival of this new Boeing 737-500 is an important event
in the process of the launch of our services from Budapest,” said
Christian Mandl, CEO SkyEurope Airlines. “We are completing the
legal and operational framework to open our services in November.
The demand for our direct low-fare flights to London, Paris, Milan
and Zurich is already exceeding our expectations.”
SkyEurope’s Boeing 737-500 was registered by the Hungarian Civil
Aviation Authority under the mark ‘HA-LKO’. The capacity of the
aircraft is 133 passengers. It is expected to carry 150,000 passengers
from and to Budapest on a yearly basis.
The first direct low-fare flights from London Stansted and Paris
to Budapest will be launched on 14 November 2003. Flights from
Milan and Zurich to Budapest will be added from 15 December 2003.
Fares for all destinations start from £17 (one-way, fees
and taxes excluded, subject to availability).
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SkyEurope Airlines ***
SkyEurope Airlines with bases in Vienna-Bratislava, Budapest
and Košice is the first low cost low fare airline in Central
Europe. The schedule includes services from Vienna-Bratislava
to London-Stansted, Paris-Orly, Košice, Berlin, Stuttgart, Zurich,
Milan-Bergamo, Venice, Dubrovnik, Split and Zadar. Bus shuttles
are operated from Bratislava to Vienna and Brno. SkyEurope flies
from Košice to Bratislava and Prague. Services from Budapest
to London-Stansted and Paris-Orly start on 14 November 2003,
to Milan-Bergamo and Zurich from 15 December. One-way fares
are available from 25 / £17 excl. taxes on all destinations
(SKK 990 / HUF 5,990), and can be booked online at www.skyeurope.com.
A
consortium of investors consisting of private equity funds funded
the development of SkyEurope Airlines earlier this year. Investors
in these funds include the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD), the European Union and ABN AMRO Bank.
The airline operates currently a fleet of 2 Boeing 737 and 4
Embraer 120 aircraft.
Contact:
Stanislav
Šaling
PR Manager
Tel.: +421-2-4850 1126
Fax: +421-2-4850 1000
E-mail: stanislav.saling@skyeurope.com
URL:
www.skyeurope.com
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