Chair Airlines
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Founded | 2014 | ||||||
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AOC # | CH.AOC.1052[3] | ||||||
Operating bases | Zürich Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
Destinations | 24 | ||||||
Parent company | Albex Aviation[4] | ||||||
Headquarters | Glattbrugg, Switzerland | ||||||
Key people | Tobias Somandin, CEO | ||||||
Website | germaniaflug.ch |
CHair Airlines AG (formerly Germania Flug) is a Swiss airline headquartered in Glattbrugg in Greater Zurich[5] and based at Zürich Airport.
History
The airline was founded in August 2014, in cooperation with the German airline Germania[6] (which also lent its corporate design) and Swiss leisure company Hotelplan, with the aim to operate leisure charter flights using the brand HolidayJet.[7] Following the inaugural flight on 26 March 2015, for the summer 2015 and winter 2015/2016, Germania Flug operated from Zürich to 17 leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa.
However, from November 2015 Germania Flug stopped its collaboration with HolidayJet, and has operated solely under its own brand name since then. In summer 2016, Germania Flug operated scheduled flights around Europe, Turkey, Lebanon and North Africa. In addition to this, it serves Pristina and Skopje on behalf of virtual airline Air Prishtina.[4]
Germania Flug was not affected by the bankruptcy of its then German shareholder Germania in February 2019, and continues its operations.[8] Short after, it has been announced that all shares formerly held by the German Germania branch have been sold to Albex Aviation, which also owns Air Prishtina.[4]
On 11th June 2019 the airline was rebranded to CHair airlines. [9]
Destinations
As of February 2019, Germania Flug operates flights to the following destinations under its own brand name:[10]
- Bulgaria
- Burgas - Burgas Airport Seasonal
- Croatia
- Split - Split Airport Seasonal
- Zadar - Zadar Airport Seasonal
- Cyprus
- Larnaca - Larnaca International Airport Seasonal
- Egypt
- Hurghada - Hurghada International Airport
- Marsa Alam - Marsa Alam Airport
- Sharm El Sheikh - Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
- Greece
- Corfu - Corfu Airport Seasonal
- Heraklion - Heraklion Airport Seasonal
- Kos - Kos Airport Seasonal
- Rhodes - Rhodes International Airport Seasonal
- Samos - Samos International Airport Seasonal
- Zakynthos - Zakynthos International Airport Seasonal
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Spain
- Fuerteventura - Fuerteventura Airport Seasonal
- Gran Canaria - Gran Canaria Airport
- Ibiza - Ibiza Airport Seasonal
- La Palma - La Palma Airport Seasonal
- Lanzarote - Lanzarote Airport Seasonal
- Palma de Mallorca - Palma de Mallorca Airport Seasonal
- Tenerife - Tenerife South Airport Seasonal
- Switzerland
- Zürich - Zürich Airport base
- Turkey
- Antalya - Antalya Airport Seasonal
Fleet
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Holiday_Jet_Airbus_A319-112_operated_by_Germania_-_HB-JOG_%28ZRH%29_%2821166922911%29.jpg/220px-Holiday_Jet_Airbus_A319-112_operated_by_Germania_-_HB-JOG_%28ZRH%29_%2821166922911%29.jpg)
The Germania Flug fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2019):[11]
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers[12] | Notes |
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Airbus A319-100 | 3 | — | 150 | |
Airbus A320neo | — | 3 | — | To be delivered in 2020[13] |
Total | 3 | 3 |
References
- ^ "IATA - Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ^ Germania Flug AG Homepage: Company | Germania Flug AG Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 20 April 2015
- ^ "List of AOC Holders with Complex Airplanes" (PDF). Federal Office of Civil Aviation. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ a b c aerotelegraph.com - "New owner: Air Prishtina CEO behind Germania Flug buyout" (German) 23 February 2019
- ^ "Imprint." Germania Flug. Retrieved on May 19, 2016. "Germania Flug AG Flughofstrasse 57 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland "
- ^ http://germania.ch/de/unternehmen/ueber-germania-flug-ag/
- ^ http://www.holidayjet.ch/de/ueber_germaina_flug_ag/
- ^ "Germania: German airline declarces insolvency and ceases flights" 5 Januar 2019
- ^ www.20min.ch, www 20minuten ch, 20 Minuten, 20 Min. "Germania heisst jetzt Chair". 20 Minuten (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-11.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ germania.ch - Streckennetz retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Germania-Flug
- ^ flygermania.com/de-ch - Flotte und Technik retrieved 12 February 2019
- ^ https://www.zrh-spotter.ch/germania-flug-flotte.html
External links
Media related to Chair Airlines at Wikimedia Commons