Chair Airlines

Chair Airlines AG, branded as chair and formerly named Germania Flug, is a Swiss airline headquartered in Glattbrugg in Greater Zurich[5] and based at Zürich Airport.

Chair Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
GM[1] GSW EIGER[2]
Founded2014 (as Germania Flug)
AOC #CH.AOC.1052[3]
Operating basesZürich Airport
Fleet size3
Destinations20
Parent companyAlbex Aviation[4]
HeadquartersGlattbrugg, Switzerland
Key peopleTobias Somandin, CEO
Employees150
Websitechair.ch

History
Germania Flug Airbus A319-100 in HolidayJet livery
A former Germania Flug Airbus A319-100

Germania Flug

The airline was founded in August 2014, in cooperation with the German airline Germania[6] (which also lent its corporate design) and Swiss leisure company Hotelplan, with the aim to operate leisure charter flights using the brand HolidayJet.[7] Following the inaugural flight on 26 March 2015, for the summer of 2015, Germania Flug operated from Zürich to 17 leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa. It was planned to continue operating the same for the winter of 2015/2016.

However, from November 2015, Germania Flug stopped its collaboration with HolidayJet and has operated solely under its own brand name since then. In summer 2016, Germania Flug operated scheduled flights around Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, and North Africa. In addition to this, it served Pristina and Skopje on behalf of virtual airline Air Prishtina.[4]

Chair Airlines

Germania Flug was not affected by the bankruptcy of its then German shareholder Germania in February 2019, and continued its operations under this name.[8] Shortly after that, it was announced that all shares formerly held by the German Germania branch had been sold to Albex Aviation, which also owns Air Prishtina.[4] On 11 June 2019 the airline was rebranded to Chair Airlines.[9]

Destinations

As of June 2019, Chair Airlines operates flights to the following regularly scheduled and seasonal destinations under its own brand name:[10]

City Country/Region Airport Notes
Basel/MulhouseSwitzerlandEuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
BeirutLebanonBeirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport
BurgasBulgariaBurgas AirportSeasonal
CalviFranceCalvi - Sainte-Catherine AirportSeasonal
DjerbaTunisiaDjerba–Zarzis International AirportSeasonal
GenevaSwitzerlandGeneva
HeraklionGreeceHeraklion International AirportSeasonal
HurghadaEgyptHurghada International Airport
IbizaSpainIbiza AirportSeasonal
KosGreeceKos International AirportSeasonal
LarnacaCyprusLarnaca International AirportSeasonal
Marsa AlamEgyptMarsa Alam International Airport
OhridNorth MacedoniaOhrid St. Paul the Apostle AirportCharter
PristinaKosovoPristina International Airport
RhodesGreeceRhodes International AirportSeasonal
Sharm El SheikhEgyptSharm El Sheikh International Airport
Bern Switzerland Bern Belp airport
SkopjeNorth MacedoniaSkopje International AirportCharter
SplitCroatiaSplit AirportSeasonal
ZadarCroatiaZadar AirportSeasonal
ZürichSwitzerlandZurich AirportHub

Fleet
Chair Airbus A319-100

The Chair Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2019):[11]

Chair Airlines fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers[12] Notes
Airbus A319-100 3 — 150
Total 3 —

References
  1. "IATA - Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  2. Germania Flug AG Homepage: Company | Germania Flug AG Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 20 April 2015
  3. "List of AOC Holders with Complex Airplanes" (PDF). Federal Office of Civil Aviation. 28 March 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. aerotelegraph.com - "New owner: Air Prishtina CEO behind Germania Flug buyout" (German) 23 February 2019
  5. "Imprint Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine." Germania Flug. Retrieved on May 19, 2016. "Germania Flug AG Flughofstrasse 57 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland "
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-24. Retrieved 2015-04-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.holidayjet.ch/de/ueber_germaina_flug_ag/
  8. "Germania: German airline declarces insolvency and ceases flights" 5 Januar 2019
  9. www.20min.ch, www 20minuten ch, 20 Minuten, 20 Min. "Germania heisst jetzt Chair". 20 Minuten (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  10. Flight Schedule
  11. https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Germania-Flug
  12. flygermania.com/de-ch - Flotte und Technik Archived 2019-02-13 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 12 February 2019

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