Chair Airlines AG, branded as chair and formerly named ''Germania Flug'', is a Swiss

airline An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...

headquartered in

Glattbrugg Opfikon (; in the local Swiss German dialect: )Andres Kristol/Gabrielle Schmid, ''Opfikon ZH (Bülach)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni sviz ...

Greater Zurich Greater may refer to: *Greatness, the state of being great *Greater than, in inequality * ''Greater'' (film), a 2016 American film *Greater (flamingo), the oldest flamingo on record * "Greater" (song), by MercyMe, 2014 *Greater Bank, an Australian ...

and based at Zürich Airport.

History

Holiday Jet Airbus A319-112 on final approach at Antalya Airport

Germania Flug

The airline was founded in August 2014, in cooperation with the German airline Germania (which also lent its

corporate design A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create an ...

) and Swiss leisure company Hotelplan, with the aim to operate leisure charter flights using the brand HolidayJet. Following the inaugural flight on 26 March 2015, for the summer of 2015, Germania Flug operated from

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco 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 Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians an ...

and

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and List of cities in North Macedonia by population, largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Sk ...

on behalf of virtual airline

Air Prishtina The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing for ...

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."Germania: German airline declarces insolvency and ceases flights"
5 Januar 2019 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.aerotelegraph.com - "New owner: Air Prishtina CEO behind Germania Flug buyout"
(German) 23 February 2019 On 11 June 2019 the airline was rebranded ''Chair Airlines''.

Destinations

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

Fleet

The Chair Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of October 2021):

Historic fleet

* 1

Boeing 737-800 The Boeing 737 Next Generation, commonly abbreviated as 737NG, or 737 Next Gen, is a narrow-body aircraft powered by two jet engines and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Launched in 1993 as the third generation derivative of the Boein ...

(Leased from

Enter Air Enter Air Sp. z o.o. is a Polish charter airline with its head office in Warsaw, Poland, and main base at Warsaw Chopin Airport and Katowice Airport. It operates holiday and charter flights out of its hubs in Poznań, Warsaw and Wrocław. His ...

)

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of Switzerland Airlines of Switzerland Airlines established in 2014 Swiss companies established in 2014 Companies based in the canton of Zürich