Helvetic Wings

Helvetic Wings
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Founding:	2003
Operation stopped:	2004
Seat:	Meyrin , Switzerland
Home airport :	Geneva airport
Company form:	Corporation
Fleet size:	2
Aims:	national and regional
Helvetic Wings ceased operations in 2004. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Helvetic Wings SA was a Swiss regional airline based in Meyrin at the Aéroport International de Genève .

history

The airline was founded on October 29, 2003 and primarily linked Swiss cities such as Basel , Lugano and Zurich by air. The flights are carried out with small passenger aircraft of the types Pilatus PC-12 and Beechcraft 1900D . Helvetic Wings has never received an operating license for its own aircraft because the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) did not allow commercial passenger flights with single-engine aircraft. For this reason, Helvetic Wings started operations on June 21, 2004 with aircraft chartered from Twin Jet ; According to the FOCA, the independent operating license should be issued one to two years later, after the decision was made as to whether certain single-engine aircraft should also be approved for commercial use. However, the airline had to cease its flight service on October 11, 2004.

fleet

• Beechcraft 1900D with 19 seats
• Pilatus PC-12 with nine seats (planned)

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Press review

• Marcel Speiser in the Tages-Anzeiger on June 10, 2004: ... and again a new airline for the Swiss domestic market

Web links

• Helvetic Wings website