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Port-au-Prince, Haiti-based Sunrise
Airways, which saw one of our 737-
800s and its crews flying on the carrier’s
South American network. This was a
very interesting exercise for us, operat-
ing an aircraft over 8,450km from our
home base – providing maintenance,
spare parts and crew logistics proved to
be a step above anything we have expe-
rienced before. But I think it pushed us
as a company and I am extremely proud
of all our people who were involved in
making it happen. We are talking to
Sunrise Airways again about repeating
the ACMI for this summer.
“We are making a profit, so we must
be doing something right! However,
the airline industry has so many exter-
nal influences that can affect the thin
line between success and failure, so we
mustn’t rest on our laurels – we must
plan our way forward carefully.”
Future Opportunities
Go2Sky is always looking for new
opportunities to expand its activities.
However, one overriding issue still
exists, and it’s one that affects all
European ACMI operators - what to
do with spare capacity over the winter
months. The CEO said that most com-
panies in this sector are looking for the
magic solution. Some, such as Small
Planet Airlines, the Lithuanian leisure
carrier, has moved five of its A320s to
Cambodia for the winter. Ferjancek
considers that doing something simi-
lar would be a very expensive venture
and a huge logistical undertaking not
just for the crews and aircraft, but also
managing the different operations in
that part of the world. “There would be
a lot to learn, before taking on such a
contract, and then there would be the
unusual weather patterns to contendwith. It is an interesting operation, but
I don’t think it is something we would
consider, at least not in the short term.”
More excitingly for Go2Sky this year
is the possibility of working with a large
flag carrier within the Star Alliance
group, but first it must pass an in-depth
audit before being granted approval to
provide the carrier and its subsidiaries
with ACMI cover. “This is another
crucial step in our development and
one that I believe will take us to the
next level. We have successfully
passed a pre-audit, which threw up
one or two things for us to attend to –
nothing too major – and we are now
awaiting the final audit, which we are
expecting to take place before the
summer peak period.”
Ferjancek concluded with a smile:
“Who would have thought it, when we
started flying in 2013 with a single 737-
400, that just five years later we would
have a profitable concern, a fleet of
four aircraft and fifth one on its way,
be employing 180 people, and be on
the cusp of flying on behalf of one of
the world’s leading airlines... what
a journey!”Go2Sky’s ACMI services used
to fly on behalf of Austrian
carrier Niki, before it folded
at the end of last year,
but all is not lost as it is
talking to Niki’s successor
Laudamotion regarding
future opportunities.Under the lights at Tenerife/
Los Rodeos Airport is this
Travel Service 737-800
that was wet-leased from
Go2Sky for the busy 2017
summer holiday season.
AIRTEAMIMAGES.COM/
JAVIER DE LA CRUZGo2Sky hopes to win
approval from a major Star
Alliance partner airline
this year to provide ACMI
cover for the carrier and its
subsidiaries – a potentially
exciting step forward for the
Slovak company.“We are making a profit,
so we must be doing
something right!
Daniel Ferjancek, CEO of Go2Sky