Sky Alps is an Italian airline which operates flights at

Bolzano Airport Bolzano Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Bolzano — Dolomiti, german: Flughafen Bozen — Dolomiten) is a small regional airport near Bolzano in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. History The airport was created in October 1926 with a 130 ...

in the autonomous province of

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. The airline's fleet consists of six leased De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 aircraft. The airline is a subsidiary of Fri-El Green Power, an Italian company focusing on

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History

The airline was founded by South Tyrolean entrepreneur Josef Gostner, who was part of ABD Holdings, a company that purchased Bolzano Airport from the South Tyrol government in 2019. The airline originally intended to commence operations in May 2020 with one daily flight between Bolzano and Rome, along with further connections to Vienna and Munich afterwards and charter flights to

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during the summer season. Gostner also had plans to lengthen the runway at Bolzano Airport by to allow larger aircraft to operate at the airport. However, it delayed the start of operations to June 2021 due to the impact of border closures associated with COVID-19. The airline operated its first flights on 17 June 2021 to

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and

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. It commenced twice-weekly flights between Bolzano and

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on 30 June. It temporarily suspended operations in late 2021 while Bolzano Airport extended its runway from to allow the handling of larger aircraft. It resumed operations on 15 December. The airline offers 13 weekly flights from Bolzano within its winter 2021 schedule.

Destinations

As of December 2022, SkyAlps operates from

to Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and several seasonal destinations. It primarily operates leisure flights with a focus on tourists travelling to

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in South Tyrol. It is the first airline to operate scheduled services from Bolzano Airport after

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suspended its flights between Bolzano and Rome's

Fiumicino Airport Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-bu ...

in 2015, although

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has operated

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from Bolzano since then. Flights are operated by Luxwing, a Maltese charter airline. As of 2 August 2023, SkyAlps serves the following destinations, as listed on their website.

Fleet

As of March 2024, the SkyAlps fleet consists of the following aircraft:

References

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* {{Airlines of Italy 2020 establishments in Italy Airlines established in 2020 Airlines of Italy Companies based in South Tyrol Italian brands