EasySky was a

low-cost airline A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called a budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on minimizing operating costs. It sacrifices certain traditional airline luxuries for cheaper fa ...

based in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

. Its head office is located in

Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa ( )—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz''—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comaya ...

, and since 2015, its primary operational base was at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa.

Destinations

EasySky flew to the following scheduled and charter destinations: *

Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport () is an international airport located on the island of Roatán, in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras. from DAFIF (effective October 2006) Roatán is in the Bay Islands Department o ...

* Toncontín International Airport *

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Maurice Bishop International Airport Maurice Bishop International Airport , formerly known as Point Salines Airport, is an international airport located in the parish of St. George's. The town of St. George's is about north of the airport and is the capital of the island nation ...

* Hewanorra International Airport *

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Toluca International Airport Toluca International Airport (); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos'' (Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos International Airport) is an international airport in Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico. It handles both na ...

* Tocumen International Airport *

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* Simón Bolívar International Airport *

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* Argyle International Airport

Fleet

Fleet before closure

As of August 2017 EasySky operated the following aircraft:

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft: * 3 further Boeing 737 * 2 Bae Jetstream 31

Incidents and accidents

On December 31, 2012, one of EasySky's planes veered off the runway while landing in San Pedro Sula and landed in a ditch. There were no fatalities and only one person was hurt. EasySky and its parent Global Air were linked to the tragedy of

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which happened on May 18, 2018, in which 112 people died, through the use of a

Boeing 737-200 The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating ...

in a wet lease service to serve regional flights to

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Legal Action

In 2018

easyGroup EasyGroup Ltd (styled as easyGroup, or simply easy) is a British multinational corporation, multinational venture capital conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1998. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and privately owned b ...

, licensor of the

easyJet EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlin ...

brand began legal proceedings against EasySky and Colombia-based EasyFly over use of the "easy" prefix.

References

External links

Official website
(Offline)
Archived EasySky website
- Wayback Machine snapshot taken on 22 March 2018, accessed 16 August 2018 {{Portalbar, Latin America, Companies, Aviation Airlines of Honduras Low-cost carriers