eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4 Posted (4 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 3848 times:
Sky work airlines was in my ToDo list for long time. I couldn't resist to theirs flights to LCY.
Plus their company slogan is more than ambitious: YOUR PERSONAL WAY TO FLY
Is our claim and motto today, and is at the centre of our service on the ground and in the air. Our goal is to make flying into the special experience that it once was.
Sky work airlines is actually first airline that impressed me so much that I want to write about.
Sky work airlines don't have flights to my home airport (SOF) so I booked Air Malta, Aeagen and Bulgaria air for this trip:
Sofia airport Тerminal 2
Lets start with KM:
18.01.2013
10:30-11:40
KM781 SOF-ATH
Airbus 320 9H-AEO
Specially for Markus:
One Kinnie for luxair747SP please:
Planehuter's meal from BER meeting TP looks better than mine
Qatar and rain for warn welcome
18.01.2013 12:35-13:25
A3116 ATH-SKG
Airbus 320 SX-DVS
LZ-PLO (named after city of Plovdiv) newest addition to FB fleet, but still crap legroom unless you pay еxtra 20 pounds. Maybe flyingfinn76 is right and it is some kind of Bulgaria air style.
Tasty sandwich
Sky work airlines - beyond my expectations. The best airline in my list. Air Malta - nice flight. Аеgean - nothing special this time. Bulgaria air -young and beautiful female FAs, new E190, but still crap legroom.
Widebodyroga From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 496 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (4 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3144 times:
Hey Eco,
Nice to see a report featuring my two European home airports that was not written by me .
How cool that you got to fly on the special livery of Air Malta. That's one cool plane. Also good call on giving SkyWorks a try. They look pretty good. They are being quite clever flying to SKG at the moment as there is plenty of demand for connections to London (and not only) now that LX (and a bunch of other carriers) left. I never flown on a Dornier. Maybe I should consider giving them a try next time I'm back in Europe. Too bad you didn't get any service on A3 due to the turbulence. I would have liked to see what they offer on this route these days.
Thanks for sharing,
WB
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roberts87 From Netherlands, joined Dec 2011, 675 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2642 times:
Nice little report about some interesting airlines!
Can't argue with your opinion about Skywork, I have some very fond memories of my flight with them as well.
Thanks for sharing!
gabrielchew From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 2512 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (4 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2443 times:
Hey Alex!
Nice report! Looks like you had a nice selection of flights! GLad you made it back to LHR with the tube all messed up. Is Bulgaria Air making money sending the Ejets to LHR? Would LGW or STN be better? Was the flight full?
eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (4 months 2 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2361 times:
Quoting Widebodyroga (Reply 1): Nice to see a report featuring my two European home airports that was not written by me .
Now its your turn
Quoting FLIEGER67 (Reply 3): nice pictures and for sure a special routing out of SOF. Definitely out of the ordinary.
Thanks. Next in my To Do list are Adria, JAT, Montenegro, Air Croatia, Blue air and Carpatair
Quoting roberts87 (Reply 4): Can't argue with your opinion about Skywork, I have some very fond memories of my flight with them as well.
Swiss quality.
Quoting gabrielchew (Reply 5): Is Bulgaria Air making money sending the Ejets to LHR? Would LGW or STN be better? Was the flight full?
Bulgaria air flies to LHR because of their SPA and interline agreements (page 107 http://www.air.bg/content/magazine/pdf/481108335.pdf) but I am not sure that this or any other of their routes (except maybe BRU & VAR) is profitable.
The load factor was ~70-80%, because BA flight to Sofia was cancelled.
Quoting gabrielchew (Reply 5): I didn't know QR flew to MLA. I guess they could see all the pax EK was taking
My mistake- what I mean was that at ATH there were only rain and one QR plane.
Quoting gabrielchew (Reply 5): Hope you enjoyed my choice of restaurant!
I wouldn't mind if our next meeting in London to be there again.
dc9northwest From Romania, joined Feb 2007, 1751 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (4 months 2 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1906 times:
Hey eco,
Good to see a report featuring the Balkans... and, as a bonus, Skywork--yeah I'm interested in them as well!
Nice report, and good to try KM on your way to London. unusual routing for sure. Also nice to get the Do-328... that airplane has some of the nicer lines in the sky IMO.
Oh, and at least Bulgaria Air has the E-190s, be they with crap legroom. I wish RO did as well! I'm getting tired of their 733s...
Luxair747SP From Germany, joined May 2010, 449 posts, RR: 18 Reply 8, posted (4 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1839 times:
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Hi Alex,
very nice trip report.
Skywork looks like an amazing little airline and i have to try it out soon too!
Also cool that you had a Kinnie, did you actually like it?
CaptainRed From Germany, joined Oct 2010, 588 posts, RR: 19 Reply 9, posted (4 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1638 times:
Hi eco,
interesting report here, enjoyed it very much. And a very cool itinerary you have put together here for a trip to London, nice variety of airlines. I had no idea that Air Malta flies the route from SOF to ATH, for sure interesting.
Both Skywork and London City are still on my to-do list, guess I should try it as well soon. Let's see. Congrats of course to log the Dornier.
MSS658 From Belgium, joined Oct 2010, 2256 posts, RR: 14 Reply 10, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1434 times:
Hi eco
Looks like you had a good trip, thanks for taking the time to talk about it!
Looks like all airlines where generally good, I'm flying AF to LCY in a few months
The SKG transfer looks interesting as well, too bad i did not opt that for my upcoming trip.
eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4 Reply 12, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1176 times:
Quoting dc9northwest (Reply 7): Hehe, quickly, before they go bankrupt! I forget, did you fly RO or QR to Bucharest last summer?
No, please tell me that you are joking. Yes, last summer I flew RO.
Quoting Luxair747SP (Reply 8): Also cool that you had a Kinnie, did you actually like it?
It was good.
Quoting CaptainRed (Reply 9): Both Skywork and London City are still on my to-do list, guess I should try it as well soon. Let's see. Congrats of course to log the Dornier.
You should try them.
Quoting MSS658 (Reply 10): Looks like all airlines where generally good, I'm flying AF to LCY in a few months
It's in my To Do list.
Quoting EL-AL (Reply 11): Very interesting route! Thank you for posting it.
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