Transwede Airways
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| Transwede Airways AB | ||
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| IATA 5T |
ICAO TWE |
Callsign TRANSWEDE |
| Founded | 1985, refounded 2005 | |
| Hubs | London City Airport | |
| Fleet size | 4 | |
| Destinations | 6 | |
| Parent company | Malmö Aviation | |
| Headquarters | Gothenburg | |
| Key people | Trygve Gjertsen, CEO | |
| Website: www.transwede.se | ||
Transwede Airways AB is a charter airline based at Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport, Sweden. Transwede operates flights on wet lease agreements from London City Airport, as well as charter flights. The company is owned by Malmö Aviation. Transwede Airways has appointed a new CEO, Trygve Gjertsen, who started January 1, 2007, taking over Jimmie Bergqvist.
The inaugural flight from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport to London City Airport, numbered SK517, took place on February 13, 2006, under Scandinavian Airlines colors. This has given place to two daily flights, numbered SK517/518 and SK529/530, with the new Transwede livery, which is a variation of Malmö's, as can be seen from Airliners.
The title Transwede has already been in use before: the old Transwede had been set up by Thomas Johansson in 1985 until 1998, when the airline was restructured and changed its name to Blue Scandinavia before being incorporated into Britannia, the remains being integrated by Per G. Braathen in Malmö Aviation and Braathens airlines. The old airline flew aircraft types ranging from Caravelles, Fokker F28s, F70s, F100s, B.737s, to MD-80s and MD-90s and even B.757s and TriStars for charter flights (see Airfleets for reference).
The Norwegian Trygve Gjertsen has been the Chief Executive of the Norwegian Postal services for the last two years, but he has already been in the airline industry with Braathens and SAS.
[edit] Destinations
On behalf of AirOne
On behalf of Scandinavian Airlines
[edit] Fleet
As of August 2006 the Transwede Airways fleet includes [1] :
AirOne has received the first of three Avro RJ70 aircraft wet leased from Transwede Airways. The other two are due to be delivered in December 2006 and January 2007 [2]. A procurement for three more is on its way, to consolidate operations for AirOne from London City Airport to Italy (Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino airports), following a long-term contract between Transwede and AirOne valued, at approximately 360 million kronor (SEK, about $45,3 million, €38,1million or £26,1 million at the time of the contract, on October 6, 2006) [3]
