SWISS and Helvetic Airways extend partnership
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Helvetic Airways have announced the extension of their long-standing partnership for another five years.
Under the renewed agreement, Helvetic Airways will continue to operate up to 15 aircraft on behalf of SWISS across its European network.
Helvetic Airways, a regional Swiss carrier, will deploy a fleet of Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft, alongside their predecessor models, the E190 and E195.
These aircraft will be provided under a wet-lease arrangement, meaning Helvetic will supply both the planes and their crew to operate SWISS flights.
“Helvetic Airways fully and consistently meets all our high safety standards and all our premium aspirations, and is well liked by our customers” explains SWISS chief commercial officer Heike Birlenbach.
“I’m delighted that we can now extend our successful partnership. Our collaboration not only enables us to cover our operating peaks: with Helvetic’s smaller aircraft, we can also serve destinations for which our own SWISS aircraft would be too big.”
“We are proud that the partnership which SWISS and Helvetic Airways have cultivated since 2007 will now be further extended and expanded,” adds Helvetic Airways CEO Tobias Pogorevc.
“This confirms to us that we consistently meet SWISS’s high quality and reliability standards, and that our advanced regional twinjets ideally supplement the SWISS aircraft fleet.”
