Hello (airline)

Hello
IATA code :	HW
ICAO code :	FHE
Call sign :	FLYHELLO
Founding:	2004
Operation stopped:	2012
Seat:	Basel , Switzerland
Home airport :	* Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Zurich
Fleet size:	4 (+ 1 order)
Aims:	International
Hello ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Hello AG was a Swiss charter airline based in Basel and based at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport . It unexpectedly ceased operations on October 21, 2012 and filed for bankruptcy on November 26, 2012 .

history

Hello was founded in 2004 by Moritz Suter . In that year she started flight operations and has been active in the charter sector ever since. Charter destinations on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were primarily served . In addition to the regular holiday flights, a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 of the Hello was used several times to repatriate holiday travelers from crisis areas, for example during the government crisis in Thailand in December 2008.

From autumn 2010 to spring 2011, the company's MD-90s were successively replaced by Airbus A320-200s .

Hello has been a partner of the Swiss football club FC Basel since the 2011/2012 season and has also provided one of the Airbus A320-200s with the club's logo.

On October 21, 2012 Hello announced bankruptcy , among other things due to a lack of liquidity, the termination of a contract with TUI Deutschland and the insolvency of two major French customers. The former chief financial officer had provided the management and the board of directors with figures which, after being examined by the new chief financial officer, turned out to be incorrect. The flight operations were stopped immediately, all aircraft were in Switzerland at that time. Hello had received a deferral of bankruptcy until the end of November 2012 on October 22, 2012, so that the board of directors and management would have time to recapitalize the airline, but had to file for bankruptcy on December 26, 2012.

Destinations

Hello served primarily from Zurich and Basel to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean and Egypt , such as Palma , Djerba , Heraklion and Hurghada .

fleet

A McDonnell Douglas MD-90 of the Hello

As of July 2012, the Hello fleet consisted of four aircraft with an average age of 13 years:

• 4 Airbus A320-200s with 174 seats each

Previously, aircraft of the type MD-90 had been used, namely

• HB-JIA July 2004-March 2009
• HB-JIB August 2004-October 2009
• HB-JIC December 2004-October 2009
• HB-JID rental from SAS April 2006-January 2011
• HB-JIE rent from SAS May 2006-2011
• HB-JIF rental from SAS March 2006-2011

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Hello (airline)  - collection of images

• Hello. ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Archive version 2012
• Federal Office for Civil Aviation on August 5, 2004: Page no longer available , search in web archives: The FOCA grants “Hello” the operating license. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung on August 5, 2004: Moritz Suter is allowed to take off - Federal Office of Civil Aviation grants the airline Hello. ( Memento from January 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• Zürcher Unterländer on June 15, 2005: Hello wants to use every gap. ( Memento of March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 20, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hello files for bankruptcy
2. ↑ Technical data. In: www.hello.ch. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ fcb.ch - Hello becomes the new Premium Partner of FC Basel 1893 ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) July 7, 2011
4. ↑ hello.ch - "The airline Hello is temporarily discontinuing flight operations" ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 21, 2012 
5. ↑ Goodbye instead of Hello - Airline worries about the future. In: Schweizer Fernsehen from October 22, 2012
6. ↑ hello.ch - Fleet ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2012  
7. ↑ airfleets.net - Fleet age Hello (English) accessed on July 21, 2012
8. ↑ hello.ch - Facts A320 ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2011  
9. ↑ Hello's MD-90 fleet