Silesian Air is a defunct scheduled, passenger and cargo airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

, formerly based in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Its main base was at Katowice International Airport

Katowice International Airport

Katowice International Airport is an international airport, located in Pyrzowice, north of center of Katowice, Poland. The airport has third biggest passenger flow in Poland....

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Code data

• ICAO Code: LSN (not current)
• Callsign: SILESIAN (not current)

History

The airline was established in 2001, and obtained its first air operator's certificate for non-scheduled services in 2002. Operations were started in 2003. In 2003 the airline created a low-cost carrier

Low-cost carrier

A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline is an airline that generally has lower fares and fewer comforts...

 brand called GetJet

GetJet

GetJet was a planned low-cost airline based in Poland. It ceased operations in 2004.- History :The airline was established in 2003 and was intended to be the low-cost brand of Silesian Air. It had planned operations to various destinations in Europe using Airbus A320 aircraft. It never started...

, but this ceased operations in 2004. Silesian Air was 100% owned by GTL. It has not been flying since 2005.

Fleet

The Silesian Air fleet consisted of 1 ATR 42-300

ATR 42

-Civil operators:The largest operators of the ATR-42 are FedEx Express, Airlinair, TRIP Linhas Aéreas,and Mexico City-based Aeromar respectively. Number of aircraft as of 2010:Some 70 other airlines operate smaller numbers of the type....

aircraft (at January 2005).