Direct Fly was a regional airline

Regional airline

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 based in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland

Poland

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. It operated domestic services. Its main base was Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport

Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport

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.

History

The airline started operations on 12 April 2006. It is wholly owned by Sky Express and all flights are operated by and under the Sky Express air operators certificate. After 12 months of operation, Direct Fly suspended operations, effective from May 7, 2007.

Management said that it is just temporary and flights will be resumed as soon as possible. Aircraft were only 20-40% full and 25,000 passengers had been flown. After suspending flights, Direct Fly is considering a share issue to get enough financial support to survive.

On May 2008 the company gave birth to a new airline

Airline

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 called SprintAir

SprintAir

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 that flies night airmail

Airmail

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 and small parcels

Package delivery

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 using 2 of its former aircraft converted into cargo and adding another one of the same type to its fleet.

Destinations

As of March 2007, Direct Fly operated scheduled domestic flights to the following destinations :

• Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
  
• Gdańsk
  Gdansk
  Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
  
  
• Wrocław
• Kraków
  Kraków
  Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
  
  

Initially, the airline had been flying to Łódź, Bydgoszcz, Berlin

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-Schonefeld

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, Copenhagen

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, Kiev

Kiev

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 and Lwów. After two months of operation, it eliminated all of its international routes and more than half of the domestic ones.