Braathens Regional Aviation was
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-owned Swedish
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airline
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headquartered in Malmö
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operating aircraft wet-leasing services together with its sister airline Braathens Regional Airways
Braathens Regional Airways AB (previously ''Golden Air'' and ''Braathens Regional'') is a Norwegian-owned Swedish airline with its head office in Trollhättan. It operates ACMI services between several domestic destinations within Sweden for it ...
for BRA Braathens Regional Airlines.
Previously it was known under the name Malmö Aviation and operated domestic routes in Sweden from its hub at Stockholm-Bromma Airport until February 2016, when its operations merged with Sverigeflyg to form BRA Braathens Regional Airlines. In the process the airline changed its name to the current Braathens Regional Aviation and ceased its own network-operations.
History
The company was established in 1981, operating as a flight training school and air charter
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flights ...
company. In the late 1980s it began operating cargo services on behalf of TNT
Trinitrotoluene (), more commonly known as TNT, more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. TNT is occasionally used as a reagen ...
with BAe 146-200QT jet aircraft; and examples of the turboprop Fokker F27 Friendship
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and its derivatives the Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227.
The company was sold to City Air Scandinavia on 11 February 1992. A new company ''Malmö Aviation Schedule'' was formed on 16 April 1993 under the ownership of Wiklund Inter Trade. Braathens
Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A/S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens. ...
of Norway acquired full control in August 1998 and in early 1999 integrated Braathens Sweden (formerly Transwede
Transwede Airways AB, was a Swedish charter and later also scheduled airline operating between 1985 and 1998. Based at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Transwede initially flew Sud Aviation Caravelles and from 1987 also McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. Most ...
) into Malmö Aviation. In December 2001 it became an independent airline owned by Braganza AS/Bramora. This was the result of the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) acquisition of Braathens in which Malmö Aviation, for legal reasons, was not included. It is now wholly owned by Braathens Aviation.
In September 2014, Malmö Aviation stated that it would no longer be the Bombardier CS100
The Airbus A220 is a family of five-abreast narrow-body airliners by Airbus Canada Limited Partnership. It was originally designed by Bombardier and had two years in service as the Bombardier CSeries.
The program was launched on 13 July 2 ...
's launch customer as previously planned. This role has since been taken over by Swiss Global Air Lines.
In March 2016, the operational part of Malmö Aviation was merged into BRA Braathens Regional Airlines together with Sverigeflyg and the name was changed to Braathens Regional Aviation.
In March 2017, Braathens Regional Aviation announced the postponement all of its orders for the Airbus A220
The Airbus A220 is a family of five-abreast narrow-body airliners by Airbus Canada Limited Partnership. It was originally designed by Bombardier and had two years in service as the Bombardier CSeries.
The program was launched on 13 July ...
, then known as Bombardier C-Series, indefinitely after a new Swedish ticket tax will be introduced which is expected to reduce passenger numbers.[aerotelegraph.com - BRA puts C-Series order on hold"](_blank)
(German) 2 March 2017 In May 2019, Braathens announced the cancellation of their A220-order which consisted of five -100 and five -300 series aircraft.aerotelegraph.com - Braathens cancels A220 order"
(German) 27 May 2019
In 2020, the airline ceased all operations.
[ch-aviation.com - Braathens Regional Aviation]
retrieved 4 September 2022 Its similar named sister companies
Braathens Regional Airlines and
Braathens Regional Airways
Braathens Regional Airways AB (previously ''Golden Air'' and ''Braathens Regional'') is a Norwegian-owned Swedish airline with its head office in Trollhättan. It operates ACMI services between several domestic destinations within Sweden for it ...
continue to operate.
Destinations
Braathens Regional Aviation did not operate flights under its own name. Instead the aircraft were used to operate flights for sister airline
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines.
Fleet
![SE-DST Avro RJ100 BRA VBY](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/SE-DST_Avro_RJ100_BRA_VBY.jpg)
As of March 2020, the Braathens Regional Aviation fleet consisted of the following aircraft, which were all operated for
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines:
See also
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Airlines
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Transport in Sweden
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