MIAMI – If at first, you don’t succeed, try try again. That’s the mentality at Bolzano Airport (BZO), which will feature Italian regional startup Sky Alps beginning in mid-June. Sky Alps is a proposed virtual carrier to be based at BZO.
Sky Alps has leased a pair of De Havilland Dash 8-400s for their launch on June 14, which will include service to Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO) three times a week and Parma twice a week. The airline will open service to Olbia on June 15, then twice-weekly service to Ibiza, and finally twice-weekly service to Berlin and Dusseldorf on June 30 and July 2 respectively.
Italian regional startup carrier Sky Alps plans to launch its first routes in mid-June.
The startup carrier has leased a pair of De Havilland Dash 8-400s from Canadian lessor Chorus Aviation in preparation for the launch. Sky Alps is a subsidiary of Italian renewable energy specialist Fri-El Green Power, which has management connections with Bolzano Airport (BZO) in northeast Italy.
Sky Alps will launch service on June 14 with 3X-weekly BZO-Rome Fiumicino (FCO) flights and 2X-weekly BZO-Parma (PMF) flights. It will operate the BZO-Olbia (OLB) route starting June 15, followed by 2X-weekly BZO-Ibiza (IBZ) service starting June 17. Internationally, the carrier will fly 2X-weekly between BZO and Berlin Airport (BER) from June 30 and 2X-weekly BZO-Dusseldorf (DUS) flights will commence on July 2.