Air Sea Lines news (update)

Air Sea Lines ceased operations after about 5 years of operations in Greece. On July 1st 2009 an injunction application was filled on Greek courts and until the issuance of the permanent rule of the court, no change on the company form and assets is allowed (see photo below). All planes of Air Sea Lines have now left Greece (see post). The last one that was on their home base in Corfu, registered SX-BMG, departed on 22/6/2009 for ACH (St. Gallen-Altenrhein, Switzerland). Due to the fact that it had no landing gears, it had to land on lake Constance and then be towed using portable landing gears to the maintenance hangar. The planes are still parked in ACH and no change has occurred since the original post (see post), except that D-IHAI (ex SX-BXF) has been put in for painting into new colors.


Injunction application was filled on Greek courts on July 1st 2009.

Thanks to Tino Dietsche (http://www.airpics4you.ch) for the following photos.

DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BMG / landing on lake Constance


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BMG / moving to the shore of lake Constance


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BMG / arrived on shore of lake Constance and will have remote landing gears fitted in order to be towed to the maintenance hangar area


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BVP & D-IHAI / parked in ACH


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BVP & D-IHAI & SX-BMG / parked in ACH


DHC-6 Twin Otter / D-IHAI & SX-BVP & SX-BMG / parked in ACH

Air Sea Lines news

Last updated 20/5 00:10

It is currently unknown if Air Sea Lines will be operating this summer. The Twin Otter registered SX-GIK (c/n 768) will be flying for Harbour Air Malta on their summer schedule (currently it is in Medavia's hangar in Malta). It was ferried on 20/4/2009 from ACH (St. Gallen-Altenrhein, Switzerland), where it was undergoing maintenance, to OLB (Sardinia, Italy) and then to MLA (Valletta, Malta). The second Twin Otter registered SX-BVP (c/n 283) is currently in ACH for maintenance and the third one, registered SX-BMG (c/n 375), is parked at their base in Corfu expecting to be ferried for maintenance to ACH as well. A forth -all white- Twin Otter, registered C-FSHJ (c/n 691), was seen in CFU (Corfu, Greece) in April 2008. It was ferried to ACH for painting and maintenance but afterall the company decided not to use it and put it on sale. While in ACH, it had received the Greek registration SX-BXF but then was reregistered to D-IHAI. SX-GIK was on sale also, but it's unsure if it was bought from Harbour Air Malta or Air Sea Lines decided not to sell it and lease it to them.

Update 20/5/2009
Ex SX-GIK took it's maltese registration (9H-AFY) and temporary sticker titles of Harbour Air Malta. See photo at the end.

Thanks to Tino Dietsche (http://www.airpics4you.ch/) for the following three photos.

DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-BXF / a few days only registration as it was undergoing maintenance in ACH


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-GIK / departing from ACH on it's way to OLB and then MLA


DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-GIK / departing from ACH on it's way to OLB and then MLA

Thanks to Malcolm Bezzina for the following photos.

DHC-6 Twin Otter / SX-GIK / parked in MLA, waiting to have Harbour Air Malta titles and registration applied on it


DHC-6 Twin Otter / 9H-AFY / parked in MLA, having it's new registration and temporary Harbour Air Malta titles