When news broke in 2006 that the first Russian low-cost airline, "SkyExpress", would soon begin scheduled flights between Moscow and Sochi, more than a year earlier a completely different airline of the same name had already started its services. Founded on the sunny island of Crete as "The Airline of Crete", Sky Express Greece had already started its services. Over the past 15 years, the airline has remained true to one thing: connecting a large number of Greek islands with propeller aircraft. In between there have been smaller excursions. In 2006, for example, a single Boeing 747-200 freighter was used for a short time and in 2009 it briefly entered the charter business with two MD-83s previously delivered to Austrian Airlines, only to end this excursion again soon afterwards. The airline then concentrated again for several years on the ATR42/72 operation within Greece and on weekends the propeller fleet even made its way to Austria from time to time, including on charter flights from Skiathos. In the midst of the Corona pandemic in autumn 2020, Airbus surprised everyone with an announcement that it had acquired a completely new Airbus operator, Sky Express. Just a few weeks later, the first brand-new A320neo took off for Greece. While airlines from all over the world postponed their orders or canceled them entirely, the private Greek airline chose the opposite path, true to the motto "attack is the best defense". With a completely revised, fresh paint job and corporate identity and a new fare system, the airline now flies to 39 national and international destinations. At the German airports of Hamburg and Dortmund,