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ASKY Airlines

ASKY Airlines
ASKY Airlines logo.jpg
IATA ICAO Callsign
KP SKK ASKY AIRLINE
Founded June 2008
Commenced operations January 2010
Hubs Lomé-Tokoin Airport
Frequent-flyer program ASKY Club
Fleet size 8
Destinations 23
Company slogan The Pan African Airline
Headquarters Lomé, Togo
Key people Henok Teferra (CEO)
Website www.flyasky.com

ASKY Airlines is a passenger airline founded on the initiative of West African governments, and has its head office in Lomé, Togo. It operates across several West and Central African countries, operating out of its hub at Lomé-Tokoin Airport.

After the pan-African airline Air Afrique went bankrupt in 2002, cross-border air transport in Africa became more difficult, especially in West and Central Africa. At a conference of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) at Niamey in Niger on 10 January 2004, it was decided to create a private, competitive, cost-effective airline offering all guarantees of safety and security for the region.

In September 2005, the company for the promotion of a regional airline (SPCAR) was set up, which led to various feasibility studies and market studies, and sought financial and strategic partners; this led to the establishment of ASKY Airlines in November 2007. On 17 January 2008 the General Meeting to establish the new international private airline was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 80% of shares were to be held by private investors, and 20% by public financial institutions whose mission is to support privately owned development institutions.Ethiopian Airlines became the technical and strategic partner under a management contract for the first five years of operation, holding a 40% stake.

Originally planned for April 2009, the first revenue flight took place on 15 January 2010.

ASKY Airlines serves the following 18 scheduled destinations throughout West and Central Africa from its hub at Lome (July 2015):

ASKY is able to connect flights in its network to various points in the Ethiopian Airlines network, with whom it has codeshare arrangements, via Addis Ababa and beyond to the Middle East, Far East, and East Africa.

THe ASKY Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft (as of August 2016):


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