Swiss Global Air Lines

Swiss Global Air Lines
IATA code :	LZ
ICAO code :	SWU
Call sign :	EUROSWISS
Founding:	2005
Operation stopped:	2018
Seat:	Basel , Switzerland
Turnstile :	Zurich Geneva
Home airport :	airport Zurich
Company form:	Corporation
Management:	Andreas Thurnheer ( Managing Director ) Roland Busch ( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees:	233
Alliance :	Star Alliance (via Swiss)
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles & More
Fleet size:	20 (+ 20 orders)
Aims:	national and international
Website:	www.swiss.com
Swiss Global Air Lines ceased operations in 2018. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Swiss Global Air Lines (until February 2015 Swiss European Air Lines ) was a Swiss airline with its headquarters and hub at Zurich Airport (legal seat in Basel ). She was a subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines , for which they in wet lease has conducted flights and until its dissolution member of the airline alliance Star Alliance was.

history

Embraer ERJ 145 of Swiss European Air Lines in 2003

Foundation and first years

In May 2003, Swiss planned to outsource its regional fleet to a new subsidiary called Swiss Express in order to be able to compete with the low-cost airlines . However, since this idea met with great resistance, the foundation of Swiss Express was finally abandoned.

After the decision to take over Swiss by Deutsche Lufthansa AG in March 2005 , the management of Swiss announced in October 2005 that the regional fleet, which at that time consisted of eight Embraer ERJ 145s and 18 Avro RJ100s , was being transferred to a new company called Swiss European Air Lines is to be outsourced. This subsidiary finally received its operating license for the 2005 winter flight schedule and was able to take off on November 1, 2005 with two simultaneous flights on the Zurich-Kloten-Geneva-Cointrin vv. start operations. The phrase "vice versa" ( German and vice versa ), more common in the three Romanic national languages, was deliberately chosen in the route name in an abbreviated form in order to underline the equality of the parts of the country - and especially the two home airports.

Between early 2008 and early 2009, Swiss European Air Lines operated in addition, the business aircraft of the Lufthansa Private Jet . In the meantime, however, the sister company Swiss Private Aviation is responsible for these flights.

New planes

In summer 2006 the Embraer ERJ 145 were taken out of service, while in summer 2007 the Avro RJ85 was phased out. In March 2009 Lufthansa ordered 30 Bombardier CS100s , which should have been delivered to Swiss Global Air Lines from mid-2015 to replace the Avro RJ100 . This date was later postponed to May 2016.

On February 3, 2015, Swiss European Air Lines was renamed Swiss Global Air Lines in order to meet the future broader areas of responsibility. At the same time, it was confirmed that the company will in future also operate long-haul flights with the Boeing 777-300ER, which has been arriving since January 2016, for the parent company Swiss.

In June 2015, ten of the 30 Bombardier CS100s ordered at the Paris Air Show were changed to the larger Bombardier CS300 . The world's first CS100 ( registration number HB-JBA) to be delivered landed at Zurich Airport on July 1, 2016. It has been in regular service since July 15, 2016 and was first used on flights to Manchester, Nice, Paris, Prague and Warsaw. Another eight CSeries should be delivered in 2016, ten in 2017 and the last 11 in 2018. In spring 2017, the division of the ordered Bombardiers was changed to ten CS100 and 20 CS300.

Dissolution and integration into Swiss

Towards the end of 2017 it was announced that Swiss Global Air Lines would be incorporated into the parent company Swiss on April 1, 2018 . A new collective employment contract was negotiated for all Swiss pilots in order to achieve uniform employment contracts for all pilots on the one hand, and to save costs in administration and administration on the other.

Destinations

Until its dissolution, Swiss Global Air Lines operated regional and feeder flights to national and European destinations in its route network, including for example London City Airport and Munich , in the name and branding of the parent company Swiss . Long-haul flights were also carried out with the Boeing 777-300ER.

fleet

Avro RJ100 from Swiss Global Air Lines

Last active fleet (as of April 2018)

Until its dissolution in April 2018, the fleet of Swiss Global Air Lines consisted of 20 aircraft with an average age of one year, which were operated in wet lease for Swiss : With the dissolution, all aircraft (including orders) became the property of the parent company Swiss transferred.

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Boeing 777-300ER	10	-		340 (8/62/270)
Bombardier CS100	08th	02	first delivery on July 1, 2016; Swiss Global was the first customer of the CS100	125 (- / 16/109)
Bombardier CS300	07th	13	HB-JCA in Romandie -Sonderbemalung	145 (- / 30/115)
total	25th	15th

Former aircraft types

Previously, Swiss European Air Lines also used the following types of aircraft:

• Embraer-ERJ-145
• Avro RJ85
• Avro RJ100

See also

• List of former airlines

Web links

Commons : Swiss Global Air Lines  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Swiss

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry of "Swiss Global Air Lines AG" in the commercial register of the canton of Basel-Stadt
2. ↑ swiss.com - Swiss European Air Lines, facts and figures , accessed on February 12, 2011
3. ↑ Swiss renames subsidiary ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. , NZZ Online, February 3, 2015 
4. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch - plans for a new regional flight airline ( memento from October 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) October 9, 2005
5. ↑ airliners.de - SWISS adopts Embraer 145 on July 31, 2006
6. ↑ ^{a b} Lufthansa buys CS series from Bombardier for Swiss , airliners.de, March 11, 2009
7. ↑ ^{a b} Bombardier postpones delivery of the CSeries to 2015 , airliners.de, January 17, 2014
8. ↑ aero.de - Swiss reports Boeing 777-300ER to regional subsidiary on February 3, 2015
9. ↑ Swiss also wants the larger C-Series , accessed on June 15, 2015
10. ↑ Why Swiss wanted the C-Series first , accessed on July 1, 2016
11. ↑ Swiss commits itself to 20 Bombardier CS300 , accessed on June 13, 2017
12. ↑ Swiss pilots are clear about tariff income. In: aerotelegraph.com. Retrieved April 5, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Swiss lets Swiss Global Air Lines die. In: aerotelegraph.com. Retrieved April 5, 2018 . 
14. ↑ ch-aviation - Swiss Global Air Lines (English), accessed on November 1, 2017
15. ↑ ^{a b} ZRH-Spotter - Swiss Flotte , accessed on February 16, 2018
16. ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries , accessed on February 16, 2018
17. ↑ Bombardier Aerospace - Commercial Aircraft Status Reports , accessed on February 16, 2018
18. ↑ swiss.com - Fleet , accessed on June 6, 2017
19. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Building larger C-Series is not an issue , accessed on March 25, 2016
20. ^ Swiss European Airlines fleet details , accessed on October 3, 2017