Poland’s SkyTaxi plans US and China charter operations

Polish charter airline SkyTaxi (Poland) (TE, Wroclaw) plans to expand its cargo charter operations to the United States and China, confirmed airline manager Greg Rybczynski. He said the Wroclaw-based privately-owned carrier recently acquired CCAR-129 approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of China and had also applied for a US Foreign Air Carrier Permit. “During the summer we extended our operational capabilities by acquiring CCAR-129 approval in preparation for future China operations. In parallel we also work with (the US Department of Transport/Federal Aviation Administration) DoT/FAA to get FAR-129 approval as well. All this in order to expand the fleet for intercontinental operations. As it’s well known, SkyTaxi has good relationships with Air Transport Services Group, Chapman Freeborn, and DHL International, but for obvious reasons I’m not in a position to disclose the future plans as to the details,” he told ch-aviation. SkyTaxi has applied for scheduled and chartered, passenger, property and mail cargo flights to the US and for exemption authority to enable it to provide the services while its application is pending. It intends to commence US service with cargo charter operations only, as its passenger aircraft do not have sufficient range to operate transatlantic at this time, according to its application to the US Department of Transportation, dated August 27, 2020. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, SkyTaxi’s fleet comprises one B767-200(BDSF) (wet-leased to DHL International Aviation Middle East (ES, Bahrain Int’l)) and one Saab 340A. The carrier wishes, however, to reserve the right to perform passenger transport in future, and to that end requests authority to do so, consistent with the EU-US bilateral.