PrivatAir

Privatair SA
IATA code :	PV
ICAO code :	PTI Privatair SA PTG Privatair GmbH PVS Privatair Saudi Arabia
Call sign :	PRIVATAIR Privatair SA PRIVATJET Privatair GmbH PASA Privatair Saudi Arabia
Founding:	1977
Operation stopped:	2018
Seat:	Meyrin Düsseldorf
Home airport :	Geneva
Company form:	Corporation
Management:	Thomas Limberger (Chairman)
Alliance :	AirClub
Fleet size:	8th
Aims:	international
Website:	www.privatair.com
Privatair SA ceased operations in 2018. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Privatair SA , PrivatAir on the outside , was a Swiss scheduled and charter airline that also operated business jets and was based in Meyrin . PrivatAir operated internationally under a German and Swiss license (AOC).

history

The headquarters of PrivatAir in Meyrin

PrivatAir was founded in 1977 as a corporate aviation division of the Latsis family group under the name Petrolair . In 1979 one began air traffic with a Boeing 737-200 and offered business travel flights . In 1989 a Boeing 757 and a Gulfstream IV were added and the name was changed to PrivatAir. On June 1, 1995, the company was then licensed as a commercial airline by the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation .

Since February 2002 the company has operated its own terminal at Geneva Airport .

From June 2002 to June 2008 Privatair operated a non-stop transatlantic service from Düsseldorf to Newark near New York City on behalf of Lufthansa . At the time of recording, this was the first transatlantic flight that took off exclusively in Business Class . For this purpose, the German subsidiary PrivatAir GmbH , based in Düsseldorf, was founded, which not only operated the four Airbuses under its own responsibility, but also carried out some of the maintenance with its own staff. Those aircraft were replaced by three Boeing Business Jets .

From 2003 to 2008 PrivatAir carried out charter traffic for Airbus between the Hamburg-Finkenwerder and Toulouse sites . This was then taken over by Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT). In addition, PrivatAir flew scheduled flights on routes for major airlines such as Lufthansa ( Frankfurt - Pune , New York, Nairobi ), SAS ( Copenhagen - Boston ) and Saudi Arabian Airlines ( Jeddah - Riyadh ).

In November 2016, the majority (51%) of the company was taken over by the British investment company SilverArrow Capital . Since 2017, PrivatAir has also been flying on selected routes for groups such as TUIfly and Eurowings .

On October 10, 2018, a decision by a Geneva court of September 24 of the same year was published in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce, according to which bankruptcy proceedings had been opened against Schweizer PrivatAir. Lufthansa had previously operated the Frankfurt - Pune connection itself. PrivatAir denied this decision and spoke of misinformation, while Thomas Limberger, as chairman of the company's board of directors, emphasized that the airline was currently in a restructuring phase after years of operating losses. While the competent court after a complaint by the private air insolvency picked up again on October 15, which withdrew airworthiness authority of the German subsidiary in late October 2018 as a result of developments, the AOC ; PrivatAir announced that it would try to reactivate it.

On the evening of December 5, 2018, however, Privat Air announced the entry into insolvency proceedings for both the Swiss parent company and the German subsidiary and justified this with the events of the previous weeks.

fleet

A Boeing 737-700BBJ operated by Swiss PrivatAir SA operated for Lufthansa, February 2009

Swiss PrivatAir

As of October 2018, there were no longer any larger business aircraft registered on PrivatAir in Switzerland.

Deutsche PrivatAir

As of October 2018, the German PrivatAir fleet consisted of six aircraft with an average age of 15.9 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
Airbus A319-100	3		operated for Saudia Private Aviation , 1 inactive
Boeing 737-700BBJ	2		inactive
Embraer Lineage 1000	1		Business jet operated for the Al Fahim Group ; inactive
total	6th

Saudi PrivatAir

As of October 2018, the Saudi PrivatAir fleet consisted of two aircraft with an average age of 17.5 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
Boeing 737-800BBJ	2		Boeing Business Jet with winglets ; 1 operated by Oger Aviation

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)
• Business aviation

Web links

Commons : PrivatAir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website PrivatAir (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services . Doc 8585, 180th edition. International Civil Aviation Organization, 2017, ISBN 978-92-9258-209-8 , ISSN  1014-0123 , 1-78 (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, applies to all ICAO codes and call signs).
2. ↑ PrivatAir - Whos-who. PrivatAir, accessed on October 19, 2017 . 
3. ^ Registre du Commerce du Canton de Genève - PrivatAir SA. Entry in the commercial register of the Canton of Geneva. November 19, 2017, accessed November 19, 2017 (French). 
4. ^ ^{A b c} Sebastian Schmitz: The Airline That Never Sold A Ticket . In: Air International . Key Publishing, February 2012, ISSN  0306-5634 (English).
5. ↑ PrivatAir SA. (PDF; 511 kB) Luftfahrt.ch, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved February 20, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Wallstreet-online.com Article of October 27, 2016 " SilverArrow Acquires Majority Share of PrivatAir in Switzerland "
7. ↑ Eurowings flies with Boeing 767 in the Caribbean Aerotelegraph.com, article from October 25, 2017
8. ↑ From Düsseldorf: Eurowings flies with Boeing 767 in the Caribbean | aeroTELEGRAPH . In: aeroTELEGRAPH . October 25, 2017 ( aerotelegraph.com [accessed November 19, 2017]).
9. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: uproar over court order on private property. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. October 19, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: "Privatair is able to fly for Lufthansa again". In: aeroTELEGRAPH. October 23, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Mutation Privatair SA in Liquidation, Baar HR02-1004473590. (PDF) In: Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt SHAB. Federal Office of Justice (FOJ), Federal Office for the Commercial Register, October 10, 2018, accessed on December 5, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: License from Privatair in Germany suspended. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. October 31, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Privatair is broke. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Press Release. In: privatair.com. Privatair SA, December 5, 2018, archived from the original on December 5, 2018 ; accessed on December 5, 2018 . 
15. ↑ ch-aviation - PrivatAir (Switzerland) (English), accessed on October 26, 2018
16. ↑ ch-aviation - PrivatAir (Germany) (English), accessed on October 26, 2018
17. ↑ ch-aviation - PrivatAir Saudi Arabia (English), accessed on October 26, 2018