SkyLink Airways, Inc.

Order 2005-1-1
OST-2004-17171 - Interstate Certificate for Public Convenience and Necessity
OST-2004-17172 - Foreign Certificate for Public Convenience and Necessity

Issued January 5, 2005 | Served January 8, 2005

Order to Show Cause - Proposing Issuance of Foreign Certificate and Deferring Action on Interstate Certificate Authority | Word

If issued the certificate authority requested, SkyLink plans to offer low-cost, low-fare scheduled passenger services between points in the U.S. and various foreign points.  As noted earlier, initially, SkyLink seeks authority to provide foreign scheduled air transportation between the United States, on the one hand, and Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, on the other hand. The company has no immediate plans to conduct interstate scheduled passenger operations and has not provided a service proposal including such services.  According to SkyLink, it may at some point conduct scheduled service in domestic markets that are “tag ends” or “stub ends” to its international flights and it plans to explore opportunities to partner with other carriers to serve as feeders into SkyLink’s transatlantic service.

SkyLink indicates that it has not yet made a final determination as to the specific international markets it intends to serve.  It has, however, provided an illustrative service proposal based on services under consideration in various markets, beginning with Baltimore/Washington (BWI Airport) - London (Stansted Airport). SkyLink intends to commence limited scheduled operations with one 236-seat B-767-200ER aircraft for approximately three months and then add three more aircraft.  By the end of its first year, the company plans to have eight B-767 aircraft in its fleet.

By: Karan Bhatia