ASL Airlines Switzerland

ASL Airlines Switzerland
IATA code :
ICAO code :	FAT
Call sign :	FARNER
Founding:	1984 2015 renamed ASL Airlines Switzerland
Operation stopped:	2017
Seat:	Basel , Switzerland
Home airport :	Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
Management:	Guy Girard ( CEO )
Number of employees:	~ 200 (as of 2014)
Fleet size:	4th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.aslairlines.ch
ASL Airlines Switzerland ceased operations in 2017. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

ASL Airlines Switzerland was a Swiss airline based in Basel and based at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Airport . It was created by renaming the former Farnair after it was taken over by the ASL Aviation Group .

history

Farnair was founded in 1984 as Farner Air Transport as an express cargo airline. The fleet consisted of a Piper PA-31 Chieftain and a Cessna 402 , 404 and 421 each . In 1987, two Embraer EMB 110s were purchased for the Basel - Brussels line . In 1990 the company received its first Fokker F-27 for the connections Basel - Brussels and Basel - Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle.

From 1991 to 1994 Farnair sat two Pilatus PC-6 and a DHC-6 Twin Otter for the logistical support of the Swiss Medical Unit for the mission MINURSO of the United Nations in the Western Sahara one. In 1993 Farnair bought the Hungarian airline NAWA Air Transport and renamed it Farner Air Transport Hungary . In 1995 it entered into a joint venture with the Dutch company Tulip Air . In 1996 Farnair stationed an F-27 in Tbilisi in support of the UN and the Swiss government , while an aircraft of the same type has been flying twice a week for the OSCE from Basel via Vienna to war-torn Sarajevo since March 1996 , equipped for approaches with Tacan . Farner Air Transport operated a total of eight aircraft of this type in 1997, plus four Let 410s and one Twin Otter and one King Air , plus 6 Piper PA-31s .

As a first customer, Farnair received an ATR 72-200 in full freighter design with a large loading door in 2000 and two ATR 42-300s for passenger transport between December 2000 and March 2001 .

In 2003 the companies Farnair Germany , Farnair Netherlands and Farnair Technical Service were sold. On the basis of a bilateral agreement between Switzerland and the EU , Farnair was split into two companies in 2004, today's Farnair Switzerland and Farnair Hungary, under the management of Farnair Holding.

On the morning of August 1, 2013 at 4:58 a.m. local time, an ATR 72-200F of the airline landed in Schönefeld and brought freight for UPS Airlines from Cologne-Bonn to the opening of the new Cargo Center of the future capital city airport BER .

In 2014 the first Boeing 737-400 in the cargo version was taken over, operated by Farnair Hungary.

At the end of October of the same year it became known that the Belgian-Irish ASL Aviation Group had bought Farnair Europe and thus owned over 100 aircraft in Europe. In 2015 the company was renamed (as a subsidiary) ASL Airlines Switzerland .

Between spring 1996 and October 2017, the company flew troops and equipment to Kosovo twice a week from Basel for Swisscoy . The order was then taken over by SkyWork Airlines . After the conclusion of this contract, the aircraft used was parked and the Swiss company's Air Operator Certificate was given up. The remaining planes were moved to Ireland. The company was renamed ASL Airline Services Switzerland .

Destinations

ASL Airlines Switzerland and its two subsidiaries offered express, ad-hoc or charter flights for freight and passenger flights . Flights from Cologne / Bonn to many different European destinations were carried out for UPS .

fleet

Fleet at the end of operations

An ATR 42 from the former Farnair Europe (2008)

An ATR 72-200F from the former Farnair Europe (2008)

As of October 2017, Farnair Europe's fleet consisted of three aircraft with an average age of 25.4 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
ATR 42-300	1
ATR 72-200F	3		1 operated for DHL Aviation South Africa
total	4th

Previously deployed aircraft

The following types of aircraft were also used before:

• Boeing 737-400
• Cessna 402
• Cessna 404
• Cessna 421
• de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
• de Havilland Canada DHC-6-400 Twin Otter
• Embraer EMB 110
• Fokker F-27
• Let L-410
• Pilatus PC-6
• Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain

See also

• List of former airlines

Web links

Commons : ASL Airlines Switzerland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ASL Airlines Switzerland website (English)
• Farnair at planepictures.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FARNAIR Switzerland AG ( memento of October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 30, 2014
2. ↑ Out and about in Bosnia's “No Fly Zone” , NZZ, January 7, 1997, page 15
3. ↑ airliners.de - First machine brings air freight to the capital city airport BER
4. ↑ aero.de - ASL grabs Farnair
5. ↑ Ch-aviation - Switzerland's SkyWork secures Kosovo military contract (English), accessed on October 5, 2017
6. ↑ ASL Airlines Switzerland ceased operations , ch-aviation, February 2, 2018
7. ↑ Ch-aviation - ASL Airlines Switzerland (English), accessed on October 5, 2017
8. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1984–2007.
9. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
10. ↑ rzjets: Farnair Air Transport, ASL Airlines Switzerland (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.