Chair Airlines

Chair Airlines
IATA code :	GM
ICAO code :	GSW
Call sign :	EIGER
Founding:	2014
Seat:	Opfikon , Switzerland
Home airport :	airport Zurich
Company form:	AG
Management:	Shpend Ibrahimi ( CEO )
Number of employees:	150
Fleet size:	3
Aims:	international
Website:	www.chair.ch

Chair Airlines is a Swiss airline and the further development of Germania Flug AG . On September 5, 2019, the airline officially changed its name from Germania Flug AG to Chair Airlines AG. Chair Airlines is based in Opfikon ( Canton Zurich ) and based at Zurich Airport .

history

Chair Airlines was founded in August 2014 under the name Germania Flug as a stock corporation by Swiss investors (60%) and the German Germania Fluggesellschaft (40%).

After the first flight on March 26, 2015, Germania Flug flew for the Swiss travel group Hotelplan Suisse in the 2015 summer flight schedule to 13 beach holiday destinations in Europe and North Africa. The airline also flew to Pristina and Skopje for Air Prishtina . At the end of August 2015, it was announced that Hotelplan had terminated its cooperation with Germania Flug effective October 31, 2015. The canceled contract was valid up to and including winter 2015/2016. As a result, Germania Flug initiated legal action against what it believed to be a termination contrary to the contract. The appeal was finally dismissed by the federal court in May 2018 .

In October 2015, an Airbus A321 from Germania was taken over, which is used, among other things, for Air Prishtina on the route between Pristina and Skopje. Scheduled flights to 20 different European destinations were planned from summer 2016 . In May 2018, Germania Flug announced that it would add an Airbus A319-100 from Bulgarian Eagle to its fleet . In October 2018 it was announced that the company would continue to expand in the summer of 2019 and increase the fleet to a total of five machines.

At the end of 2018, Germania ran into financial difficulties, which is why Hotelplan Suisse stopped booking seats at Germania Flug in January 2019. After the German company declared bankruptcy at the beginning of February 2019, the Swiss company was able to continue flying. In mid-February, Air Prishtina boss Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi and her subsidiary Albex Aviation took over Germania Flug completely, including the share previously held by the joint parent company Germania Beteiligungsgesellschaft . As part of the realignment, a brand change was also sought at this time.

Originally it was planned that Germania Flug would operate with four aircraft in summer 2019, one of which was to be operated by Bulgarian Eagle in wet lease . The Airbus A321-200 with the registration HB-JOI was returned in March 2019 due to difficulties with the rewriting of the leasing contracts and replaced by an Airbus A319-100 from the inventory of Germania. Due to the insolvency of Bulgarian Eagle and the difficult situation on the wet lease market after the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 , however, a fourth aircraft could not be rented, so that the summer flight schedule had to be rescheduled to three aircraft at short notice.

On May 3, 2019, it was announced that the Polish charter airline Enter Air wanted to acquire a 49.9 percent stake in Germania Flug. The remaining 50.1 percent will continue to be held by the holding company Albex Aviation. Germania Flug announced on June 11, 2019 that the airline is renaming itself to Chair Airlines.

The 2019 summer flight schedule consists of flights from Zurich to destinations in the Balkans and other holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, such as Palma de Mallorca .

At the beginning of September 2019 it was announced that Germania Flug AG was renamed Chair Airlines AG.

fleet

As of March 2020, the Chair Airlines fleet consists of three aircraft and one order with an average age of 12.0 years:

A319
Registration	Image of the airplane	delivery	Baptismal name	comment
HB-JOG		03/28/2015		ex. Germania D-AHIM
HB-JOH		02/25/2015		ex. Germania D-AHIL
HB-JOY		04/18/2019		ex. Germania D-ASTS

Former fleet

A321
Registration	Image of the airplane	Working time	Baptismal name	comment
HB-JOI		October 25, 2015 - March 23, 2019		With Sharklets, to Condor as D-ATCF

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Chair Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chair Airlines' website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HolidayJet Homepage: Route Network | HolidayJet , accessed April 2, 2015
2. ↑ Germania Flug AG Homepage: Company | Germania Flug AG ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 2, 2015
3. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Holidayjet no longer flies in winter. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. August 31, 2015, accessed September 3, 2015 . 
4. ^ Statement by Germania Flug AG on the cooperation with Hotelplan Suisse. (No longer available online.) In: Germania Flug AG media release. August 31, 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2015 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Hotelplan Suisse stops bookings when Germania is ailing. Retrieved January 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Switzerland's Germania Flug adds maiden A321 to fleet (English), accessed on October 26, 2015
7. ↑ Swiss charter airline Germania enters the scheduled business , accessed on October 29, 2015
8. ↑ Press release - Press & Media - Germania | flygermania.com. Accessed November 1, 2018 (German). 
9. ↑ Press release - Press & Media - Germania | flygermania.com. Accessed November 1, 2018 (German). 
10. ↑ Aerotelegraph: Germania Switzerland continues , February 5, 2019
11. ↑ ^{a b} Germania Flug is now a purely Swiss airline . Aero Telegraph. February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
12. ↑ Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi: This entrepreneur takes over Germania-Flug. Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Swiss airline: 737-Max-Grounding thwarts plans by Germania Flug. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. April 17, 2019, accessed on April 18, 2019 (German). 
14. ↑ Timo Nowack: Enter Air joins Germania Flug. In: aerotelegraph.com. May 3, 2019, accessed May 6, 2019 . 
15. ↑ www 20minuten ch, 20 minutes, 20 minutes www.20min.ch: Germania is now called Chair. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
16. ↑ René Steuer: Chair now officially under a new name in the air. In: austrianaviation.net. September 10, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
17. ^ Chair Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. August 2, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2019 .