Skymark Airlines

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Skymark Airlines スカイマーク

IATA BC	ICAO SKY	Callsign Skymark
Founded		1996
Hubs		Tokyo International Airport
Fleet size		9
Destinations		5
Parent company		Skymark Airlines Inc. TYO: 9204
Headquarters		Tokyo, Japan
Key people		Shinichi Nishikubo (Chairman, President and CEO)
Website: http://www.skymark.co.jp

Skymark Airlines Inc. (スカイマーク株式会社, Sukaimāku Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is an airline headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It operates scheduled passenger services on Japan's regional routes and international charter flights to Seoul. Its main base is Tokyo International Airport (Haneda).

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1996 and started operations on 19 September 1998, as an open sky domestic airline following deregulation. The major shareholders are Shinichi Nishikubo (35.47%), President of the company, and H.I.S. (27.62%). It has 821 employees.

[edit] Services

Skymark Airlines operates scheduled flights from Tokyo International Airport in Ota, Tokyo to:

Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka, Fukuoka
Kobe Airport in Kobe, Hyogo
New Chitose Airport in Chitose & Tomakomai, Hokkaidō
Naha Airport in Naha, Okinawa.

Skymark offers one-way fares as low as ¥5,000 on the Tokyo-Kobe route. [1]

[edit] Fleet

Boeing 737-800 in new Skymark livery

The Skymark Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) ^[1] :

6 Boeing 767-300ER
3 Boeing 737-800

767-300ER aircraft JA767A and JA767B, fitted with 12 first class and 297 economy seats, are usually operated on the Fukuoka route and are both painted with billboard-style advertising on each side of the fuselage. JA767C, with 24 first class and 230 economy, is usually operated on the Kagoshima route and carries a standard livery.

Skymark is purchasing more 737 aircraft to replace its 767 fleet by 2010. By the time the last 767s are retired, the airline plans to have a fleet of at least ten 737s. The first two 737s will be used on Skymark's Kobe flights starting in 2006. It already took delivery of 3 B737-800s and still operates 6 B767-300s which are to leave the fleet by 2009 at which point it plans on operating 9 B737-800s with 2 more arriving by 2011.