Skymaster Airlines
Brazilian cargo airline
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Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.
Founded1995
Ceased operations2010
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| Founded | 1995 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2010 | ||||||
| Hubs | Eduardo Gomes International Airport | ||||||
| Secondary hubs | São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | None | ||||||
| Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
| Destinations | Continental - Domestic | ||||||
| Headquarters | Manaus, Brazil | ||||||
| Website | http://www.skymaster.com.br | ||||||
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.
