Skymaster Airlines

Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.

Skymaster Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
- SKC SKYMASTER AIR
Founded1995
HubsEduardo Gomes International Airport
Secondary hubsSão Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
Focus citiesNone
Fleet size0
DestinationsContinental - Domestic
HeadquartersManaus, Brazil
Key peopleGeneral Director
Websitehttp://www.skymaster.com.br
Boeing 707 of Skymaster Airlines at London Southend Airport in 1998

History

The airline was established on 30 November 1995 and started operations in 1997.

On February 19, 2014, Skymaster along with BETA Cargo were fined by CADE (Brazilian antitrust court) a combined 83 million reais (US$35 million), for running a cartel that hampered competition and drove up bid prices of procurements by the country's state-owned postal service Correios.[1]

Fleet

The Skymaster Airlines fleet included the following aircraft in August 2006, but the maximum was 8 :[2]

Crashes and Incidents
  • On 7 March 2001, a Skymaster Airlines 707-320C, registration PT-MST, landed hard on Runway 09R, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. As a result of the landing the undercarriage failed, damaging all four engines and injuring three people. The aircraft was subsequently written off.
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References
  1. Ivers, Dan. "Brazil Hits 2 Freight Airlines With $35M In Bid-Rigging Fines". Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  2. Flight International, 3–9 October 2006


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