Skymaster Airlines Explained

Airline:	Skymaster Airlines
Fleet Size:	0
Destinations:	Continental - Domestic
Iata:	-
Icao:	SKC
Callsign:	SKYMASTER AIR
Founded:	1995
Ceased:	2010
Headquarters:	Manaus, Brazil
Hubs:	Eduardo Gomes International Airport
Secondary Hubs:	São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
Focus Cities:	None
Website:	http://www.skymaster.com.br

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

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]

• 5 Boeing 707-300F
• 1 Douglas DC-8-62CF
• 2 Douglas DC-8-63CF

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.

See also

• List of defunct airlines of Brazil

External links

• Skymaster Airlines

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ivers. Dan. Brazil Hits 2 Freight Airlines With $35M In Bid-Rigging Fines. 5 August 2014.
2. [Flight International]