Tyrolean Jet Services
Tyrolean Jet Services is an Austrian airline based in Innsbruck. TJS operates ten business jets, both for the flight readiness of the sole owner - the company Swarovski - as well as for charter customers.
History
In 1978, the company existing since 1958 Aircraft Innsbruck was taken over by Christian Schwemberger Swarovski and Gernot Langes- Swarovski. The division business trip flights was operated with two Cessna Citations. At this time there was at Innsbruck Airport only a flight to Zurich. So experienced the Aircraft Innsbruck with their business aircraft very popular.
In 1978 the renaming and restructuring held in Tyrolean Airways, wherein said areas of airline, air ambulance and business travel flights were summarized.
On April 1, 1980, the first scheduled flight from Innsbruck to Vienna and Zurich with a Dash 7 - was called the " city of Innsbruck " - added. In the first year you could already booked 38,500 passengers, which justified the use of a second machine from May 1981. With her the route network was expanded to a twice daily flown Frankfurt Course. In 1985, Tyrolean Airways, the first customer in Europe, a twin-engine Dash 8 with 37 seats. Furthermore, it was renamed the company in Tyrolean Jet Services.
Tyrolean divided the air rescue in Tyrol Air Ambulance and the helicopter division of the Heliair.
1988 Tyrolean was transformed into a joint stock company and the Leipnik Lundenburger industry -AG took over 25%. The ÖAMTC, in 1995, the Heliair and Austrian Airlines scheduled operations. Thereupon TJS is exclusively focused on the field of Business Travel.
In 2006 the total flight time of the fleet around 3,100 hours. 2007 TJS operating a total of five business jets - including two ultra-long- haul aircraft - and several aircraft were managed for external support.
2008 TJS received the EBAA Silver Safety Award for their operation under EU OPS 1 standard. and 2010, the EBAA Golden Safety Award for their operation under EU OPS 2 standard.
The company employs 25 pilots, eight flight attendants, ten technicians, nine persons in the service area and five in the administrative field.
The TJS is a member of the Austrian Business Aviation Association since its inception in 2010.
Fleet
With as of May 2013, the fleet of the Tyrolean Jet Services consists of eight aircraft: