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19 April 2008

Helvetic Airways in the skies

Martin Ebner, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Patinex AG, Leonardo De Luca, Member of the Board of Directors of Helvetic Airways, and Bruno Dobler, CEO, reported on a successful 2007 / 2008 financial year.

In the 2007 / 2008 financial year, Helvetic Airways achieved a solid result from the wet lease and scheduled flight business. The ACMI partnership with Swiss International Airlines was strengthened, so that Swiss now has 3 Fokker 100s in its fleet. As a convenience airline, Helvetic Airways successfully positioned itself on the air traffic market in southern Italy, Sicily and Andalusia (Jerez de la Frontera). The airline also collaborated with various tour operators in charter traffic to offer flights to destinations in northern and southern Europe.

In 2007 / 2008, Helvetic Airways carried a total of more than 500,000 passengers. Bruno Dobler is optimistic about the summer and autumn of 2008, because the number of bookings is already significantly greater than at the same time last year.

Helvetic Airways has a strong focus on training its 120 employees. In view of the rapidly expanding air traffic, Helvetic Airways has entered into a broad agreement with the flight school Horizon Swiss Flight Academy Ltd., Bülach, Switzerland, (www.horizon-sfa.ch). In addition to training the cabin crew, they also offer comprehensive airline pilot training using state-of-the-art equipment, such as the flight simulator (D-Sim-42) and training aircraft (DA42 Twin Star).


Swiss regional airline Helvetic Airways provides a range of short- and medium-haul air services from various Swiss airports. The carrier deploys its Embraer E190-E2, E195-E2 and E190-E1 aircraft on scheduled, charter and wet-lease flights. At least six Helvetic Airways Embraer E190-E2s and E195-E2s are being operated in winter 2023/24 and summer 2024 on behalf of Swiss International Air Lines in summer 2023 under a long-term wet-lease agreement.

The Helvetic Airways workforce numbers over 510 employees. The company also has its own maintenance hangar and operation at Zurich Airport, which is further home to its corporate head office. The airline offers innovative part-time employment models to its cockpit and cabin personnel. For its cabin attendants these include ‘Ski&Fly’, ‘Fly&Study’ and the fully flexible ‘Fly your way’ model. Details of current vacancies at Helvetic will be found at career.helvetic.com.

Helvetic Airways has been working closely with Horizon Swiss Flight Academy AG (www.horizon-sfa.ch), which is based in Kloten, Switzerland, since 2008. Both companies are part of the Helvetic Airways Group, which is domiciled in Freienbach, Switzerland.

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Simon Benz
press@helvetic.com

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