Travel Service, a.s. is a Czech charter airline and the biggest airline in the Czech Republic with its head office on the property of Václav Havel Airport Prague in Ruzyn?, 6th district, Prague. It operates charter flights mainly to leisure destinations and also wet and dry leases aircraft to other airlines. It has subsidiaries in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia and also operates scheduled flights under the brand SmartWings.
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Overview
History
In 2007, the company carried 2.2 million passengers, one year later about 2.3 million passengers. In 2014, it carried 4.3 million passengers, about 1.2 of them on regular flights under the brand name SmartWings.
On 18 September 2007, the Icelandair Group acquired 50% stake in the carrier and purchased further shares to bring its holding to 80% by April 2008. In December 2008 it reduced its holding to 66% by selling shares to the other shareholders, Unimex. In 2009 their stake was further diluted to 50.1% through a new share issue, and they also sold a portion of their stake to fellow owners reducing their holding to 30% In 2009 Icelandair spun its 30% stake in Travel Service into a new company, that was the taken over by Icelandair's creditors.
Chinese investment group CEFC China Energy holds a 49.9% stake in Travel Service.
In October 2017 it was announced that Travel Service plans to change its branding from an Airline to a Holding Company and will move all of its operations under the SmartWings brand.
Business figures
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Destinations
Fleet
Current fleet
As of August 2017 the Travel Service fleet consists of the following aircraft (this list also includes all aircraft in SmartWings livery, since they are all operated by Travel Service):
Business jet fleet
Travel service also operates business jets that are available for private air charter. As of January 2017 the business jet fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Previously operated
- Airbus A320-200
- Boeing 737-400
- Boeing 737-500
- Boeing 757-200
- Boeing 767-300ER
- Tupolev Tu-154M
References
External links
Media related to Travel Service at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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