Sky Alps S.r.l., branded as skyalps, is an

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which operates flights at

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in the autonomous province of

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. The airline's fleet consists of fourteen 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 offered 13 weekly flights from Bolzano within its winter 2021 schedule. As of December 2022, Sky Alps operated 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 Darwin Airline suspended its flights between Bolzano and Rome's Fiumicino Airport in 2015, although

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has operated

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from Bolzano since then. Flights were then operated by Luxwing, a Maltese charter airline. Sky Alps and the city of

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also have signed an agreement which will see the Italian regional carrier base one of its Dash 8-400 turboprop aircraft at

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from April of 2025. and launch several new routes.

Destinations

As of November 2024, Sky Alps serves the following destinations:

Fleet

As of March 2025, the Sky Alps fleet consists of the following aircraft:

References

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