STP Airways is the national

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. It is currently on the list of carriers banned from operating into the European Union, so its flights are operated by the Portuguese airline

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History

STP Airways commenced operations on 18 August 2008 with flights between

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, and

, with a

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aircraft leased from parent company,

. From 24 October 2012 STP Airways is using

B737-800 on weekly Lisbon service.

Destinations

Fleet

As of August 2019, the STP Airways fleet uses the following aircraft: The airline also operates

Dornier 228 The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, designed and first manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981 until 1998. Two hundred and forty-five were built in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 19 ...

s on flights to Príncipe. In the past, STP Airways used to operate two

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from its parent company,

(CS-TFS and CS-TFT). Both planes returned to EuroAtlantic by 2013. Since then, STP Airways started to operate a

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also from EuroAtlantic. However, in May 2015, the company resumed to operate one Boeing 767.

References

External links

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