West Air Sweden is a 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...

 based in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

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. It operates scheduled and ad hoc freight charter services for FedEx

FedEx

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, DHL

DHL

DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....

, TNT

TNT N.V.

TNT N.V., more commonly known as TNT, is an international express and mail delivery services company with headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. In the Netherlands, TNT operates the national postal service under the name TNT Post. The group also offers postal services in eight other European...

 and UPS

United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...

. It is also contracted to operate mail flights 6 nights a week on behalf of the Swedish post office. Its main bases are Lidköping-Hovby Airport

Lidköping-Hovby Airport

Lidköping-Hovby Airport , also known as Lidköping Airport, is an airport situated 5 km outside Lidköping, Sweden. The airport was built by the Swedish Air Force in the 1940s...

 (LDK) and Malmö Airport (MMX).

In October 2008 it was announced that the airline would merge with British

United Kingdom

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 cargo airline Atlantic Airlines to form a new airline called West Atlantic

West Atlantic

West Atlantic was created in 2008 through the merger of two of Europe's most established independent cargo airlines, West Air Europe of Sweden, West Air Europe of Luxembourg and Atlantic Airlines of the UK....

 with its headquarters in Sweden.

History

The airline was established in 1955 as LBF-Eda Varken operating air taxi flights. The name was changed to Abal Air in 1982 and to West Air Sweden in 1992. It then converted to a cargo airline in May 1997 after discontinuing scheduled passenger services between Säve and Sundsvall

Sundsvall

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. During 2006 West Air won a contract with the Norwegian Postal services rendering an expansion of 50% of West Air's capacity.

Fleet

The West Air Sweden fleet consists of the following aircraft as of November 2009: http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=PT&al_op=1

Aircraft	Total
BAe ATP(F)	16
Bombardier CRJ200 Bombardier CRJ200 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 are a family of regional airliner manufactured by Bombardier, and based on the Canadair Challenger business jet.-Development:... LR (PF)	2
Total	18

External links

• West Air Sweden