Tuesday, October 1, 2024 Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Helvetic Airways have renewed their partnership for another five years. Through this extended wet-lease arrangement, Helvetic Airways will continue to operate up to 15 advanced, fuel-efficient Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft, along with the previous-generation E190s and E195s, across SWISS’s European routes. These aircraft, along with their full crews, are provided by Helvetic to support SWISS’s regional flight operations.
“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.” Helvetic Airways is set to operate up to nine aircraft for SWISS during the upcoming winter schedule, with the number increasing to as many as 15 aircraft .