Chile’s Sky Airline Looks To Enter The US Market

The Chilean ultra-low-cost carrier Sky Airline

has filed a request to the Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate non-stop flights from Chile to the United States.

Entering the US market

Sky Airline intends to initially serve the US market on flights to and from the United States operated by Sky’s controlled affiliate, Sky Airline Peru. But in the future, the Chilean branch of the company also intends to operate from Chile “upon its receipt of aircraft with the range necessary to do so on a nonstop basis.”

The Chilean-founded company currently has an order for ten Airbus A321XLRs, which would allow the airline to fly nonstop from Santiago de Chile to destinations such as Miami without using a widebody aircraft. Sky and other Chilean companies, such as JetSMART and LATAM Chile, have ordered the XLR and have hinted at the United States as their main goal with the long-range single aisle jetliner.