Helvetic Wings

Helvetic Wings SA was a Swiss regional airline based in Meyrin at Aéroport International de Genève.

History

The airline was founded on 29 October 2003 and joined primarily Swiss cities such as Basel, Lugano and Zurich by air together. The flights will be operated with small passenger aircraft types Pilatus PC -12 and Beechcraft 1900D. Helvetic Wings has never received an operating license for its own planes because the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation ( FOCA) did not allow for commercial passenger flights of single engine airplanes. For this reason, Helvetic Wings went into operation on 21 June 2004 with chartered aircraft from Twin Jet; the stand-alone operating license should be granted one or two years later, now after you wanted to decide in principle whether to allow certain single-engine aircraft for the commercial application according to FOCA. However, the airline had to discontinue their flight service on 11 October 2004.

Fleet

  • Beechcraft 1900D with 19 seats
  • Pilatus PC -12 with nine seats (planned)

Press

  • Marcel feeder in the Tages-Anzeiger on June 10, 2004: ... and again a new airline for the Helvetic Internal Market
IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code
384669
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