Avitrans was a
charter airline
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a airline ticket, ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad h ...
based in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
,
Sweden
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. It operated ad hoc passenger and cargo charters, as well as wet-leasing aircraft to other carriers. It started operations in 2004 and had 70 employees. Its main base was
Växjö Airport.
A large portion of their flights was performed for the travel organiser and partial owner
Sverigeflyg, with brand names
Blekingeflyg,
FlySmåland,
Gotlandsflyg,
Kalmarflyg,
Kullaflyg, and
Sundsvallsflyg.
The company was closed in 2010.
Fleet
The Avitrans fleet included the following aircraft (as of 31 March 2009
*8
Saab 340A (two aircraft were operated for
Air Åland, one aircraft is operated for
Blekingeflyg, one aircraft is operated for
Kalmarflyg and one aircraft is operated for
Wingo xprs
Wingo xprs was a small airline company in Finland that was founded 2007. Wingo xprs had no planes or staff of its own but rented them instead. Wingo xprs operated three destination with one plane. The flight went from Turku via Tampere to Oulu. I ...
)
*4
Saab 340B (two aircraft were operated for
Vildanden and one aircraft was operated for
FlySmaland)
See also
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Airlines
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Transport in Sweden
References
External links
AvitransAvitrans Fleet
{{Navbox Airlines of Sweden
Defunct airlines of Sweden
Airlines established in 2004
Airlines disestablished in 2010