Sky Airline
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| Founded | 2001 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport | ||||||
| Frequent-flyer program | Sky Plus | ||||||
| Fleet size | 15 | ||||||
| Destinations | 18 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile | ||||||
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| Website | skyairline.cl | ||||||
Sky Airline is an airline based at Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile. It is the second largest airline in the country behind rival LATAM Airlines. It serves international routes to Argentina, Brazil, Perú and Bolivia. It operates under a semi-low cost model. Compared to other European or US low cost carriers, it has a smaller business model, lower wages for its employees, and lucrative regulatory requirements. It also operates charter flights in Chile and South America.
Sky Airline was controlled by its founder, Jürgen Paulmann (1930–2014), a German-Chilean businessman, brother of retail billionaire Horst Paulmann. It started operations in December 2001 and made the first flights from Santiago to Northern Chile in June 2002. Since 2005 is a full member of IATA.
In April 2009, the company signed an agreement with Aerolineas Argentinas, allowing the Argentinean flag carrier to offer in all its commercial offices and through its electronic ticket system most of the destinations covered by Sky Airline in Chile.
In 2011 it signed a codeshare agreement with TACA Airlines for domestic flights in Chile, Perú and between both countries. In 2012 it signed a codeshare agreement with TACA's parent company, Colombia's Avianca for operations between Chile and Colombia.
The airline is to transition to a low-cost carrier model during 2015 and 2016 to reduce costs.
Sky Airline was named the Best Regional Airline in South America in the 2014 and 2015 Skytrax World Airline Awards.
Maintenance services are supplied by AIRMAN, a sister maintenance company based in Santiago Airport.
The Sky Airline fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):
The company expects to expand its current fleet to 25 planes by 2018.
Since its beginnings, Sky Airline operated a 100% Boeing 737 fleet, these began to be replaced by Airbus A320 family planes in 2010 and were fully withdrawn in 2013.
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