Fly My Sky

Fly My Sky is a small airline based in Auckland, New Zealand. The airline operates between Auckland, Matamata and Great Barrier Island. The company, registered in 2007, is owned by Dawn and Scott Young. The airline grew out of Mountain Air.[1]


Fly My Sky
IATA ICAO Callsign
— ILD (Island)
Founded2007
Hubs
Fleet size4
Destinations3
Parent companyCommercial Helicopters Ltd.
HeadquartersAuckland, New Zealand
Key peopleKeith McKenzie (CEO)
Websitehttp://www.flymysky.co.nz
One of Fly My Sky's Britten Norman Islanders (ZK-SFK) at Auckland in 2009
ZK-PIY flying over Auckland in 2012

History

In 1998 Mountain Air added two Britten Norman Islanders and two Piper Aztec aircraft to its fleet and extended its services to provide New Zealand wide charter flights. Scheduled services were also developed to provide several flights a day between Auckland Airport, Whangarei and Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf branded as Great Barrier Xpress. Whangarei was withdrawn in 2008. In 2019 flights to and from Matamata were initiated.

The airline serves both Great Barrier airports, Claris and Okiwi.[2] Special window kits have been put into the two Islander aircraft to provide more windows so passengers can have better views. Two more Britten-Norman Islander aircraft were added to the fleet in 2006 and 2007.

In June 2008, Mountain Air rebranded Great Barrier Xpress as Fly My Sky.[3]

Fly My Sky attempted to restart Whangarei operations in October 2018, however the service failed due to lack of patronage and frequent cancellations and ceased in June 2019.[3] In November the same year, the airline has started daily flights to Matamata for tours of the Hobbiton movie set. [4]

On 20 March 2020, the company operating Fly My Sky, Commercial Helicopters Limited, was sold to new owners Dawn and Scott Young.[3]

During the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Fly My Sky was operating an extended daily schedule into Okiwi Airfield as an essential service.[5] Normally the airfield is only operated to subject of demand.[6]

Fleet
  • 4 Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander

Operations

Fly My Sky operates out of Auckland Airport and flies scheduled daily flights to the following destinations:

As of 2020, Fly My Sky is the only operator to Okiwi Airfield.[6]

Fly My Sky also supports parachute training for the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) at RNZAF Base Whenuapai.[8]

Terminated Destinations

Accident

One of the airline's Britten-Norman Islander aircraft had a rough landing at Okiwi airport in January 2013. No one was injured in the incident. The airline's CEO said the incident was caused by wind shear.[9] The aircraft was written off as a result.[10]

gollark: It runs surprisingly well on my laptop (i5 7200U/HD Graphics 620), though that's possibly just because of the low-res screen.
gollark: My lowish-solar-orbit communications satellite is finally in lowish solar orbit after far too much time spent waiting on the ion engine.
gollark: Well, the site is still sort of there.
gollark: Apparently this still exists: https://dvd.netflix.com/
gollark: I successfully launched 6 of these nice overengineered comsats.

References
  1. "Fly My Sky - Our Story - Fly My Sky". Fly My Sky. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  2. "Airline flights Great Barrier Island and Auckland > Timetable & Fares". Fly My Sky. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  3. Steve L (20 November 2011). "3rd Level New Zealand: Fly My Sky". 3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  4. "Daily Flights to Hobbiton". Fly My Sky. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  5. Transport, Auckland. "Okiwi Airfield: Supporting Great Barrier Island under Alert Level 4". Auckland Transport. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. "Timetable - Fly My Sky - Great Barrier Island Flights Timetable". Fly My Sky. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  7. https://blueswandaily.com/fly-my-sky-to-launch-auckland-matamata-route-in-nov-2019/
  8. "About Us". Fly My Sky. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  9. "Rough landing grounds plane". Stuff.co.nz. 31 January 2015.
  10. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander ZK-DLA Okiwi Station Airport". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 31 May 2020.

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