Rhine valley flight

Rhine valley flight
IATA code :	WE (OS)
ICAO code :	RTL (AUA)
Call sign :	Rhine Valley
Founding:	1973
Operation stopped:	2002
Merged with:	Tyrolean Airways
Seat:	Innsbruck , Austria
Company form:	GesmbH
Alliance :	Austrian Airlines Group
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles and More
Fleet size:	3
Aims:	regional
Rheintalflug merged with Tyrolean Airways in 2002 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover.

The Rheintalflug Seewald Ges. Mb H. was an Austrian airline based in Innsbruck .

history

The company was founded in 1973 by Rolf Seewald and initially operated taxi flights from the Hohenems-Dornbirn airport , then a scheduled connection from the St. Gallen-Altenrhein airport to Vienna (17 flights per week in 1997), and from 1992 had the line concession for Europe. Since 1997 it has also operated the Friedrichshafen - Berlin / Tegel , Friedrichshafen - Cologne / Bonn and, at times, Friedrichshafen - Düsseldorf routes on behalf of Lufthansa .

In February 2001 Rheintalflug was sold to Austrian Airlines and was thus a member of the Austrian Airlines Group . At the end of 2002 it was then merged with Tyrolean Airways to appear again as Austrian Arrows . Renate Moser, wife of Rolf Seewald, then founded the Intersky airline with its home airport in Friedrichshafen .

fleet

The company operated a total of eight turboprop aircraft, three Embraer ERJ 145s at the time of sale .

Crash Rheintalflug flight 102

→ Main article : Rheintalflug-Flight 102

On February 23, 1989, 11 people, including the then Austrian Minister of Social Affairs Alfred Dallinger and Brigitte Seewald, pilot and wife of the company founder, died in the unexplained crash of an Aero Commander 690D on the Rhine Valley flight over Lake Constance near Rorschach .

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Rheintalflug  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the airline (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Gasser: The drama about flight "Rheintal 102". In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. February 15, 2014, accessed December 18, 2019 .