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Swiss International Air Lines AG, stylized as SWISS, is the flag carrier of Switzerland and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, as well as a Star Alliance member. It operates scheduled services in Europe and to North America , South America , Africa and Asia .
The airline was founded in 1984 as Servair Private Charter AG and was acquired by Swiss International Air Lines and renamed Swiss Private Aviation on 17 July 2008. [2] Swiss Private was also the operations platform for Lufthansa Private Jet, previously operated by Swiss European Air Lines. [3] [4]
Skyguide's most important partners are the Swiss Air Force. Switzerland's air policing and defence are the responsibility of the Swiss Air Force, which, with its primary radars, can also detect flying objects not emitting a transponder signal. Skyguide is unusual, however, in that in addition to its civil air traffic management role, the ...
After problems with the former Crossair pilot unions, who refused to accept different conditions than the former Swissair pilots within the same airline, a subsidiary called Swiss European Air Lines was founded, which belongs 100% to Swiss International Air Lines. In 2003, it appeared that Swiss was going to become a member of Oneworld.
Swiss International Air Lines: CH.AOC.1006: LX: SWR: SWISS: Zurich Airport Geneva Airport: Flag carrier of Switzerland Charter airlines. Airline AOC no. Photo IATA ICAO
In March 2011, Edelweiss Air added the larger Airbus A330-300 to its fleet, with an order having been placed on 5 April 2010. [8] In July 2015, it was announced that Edelweiss would receive four Airbus A340-300s between 2017 and 2018 previously operated by its parent Swiss International Air Lines. The aircraft were used to expand the route network.
The Swiss Air Force (German: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French: Forces aériennes suisses; Italian: Forze aeree svizzere; Romansh: Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914, three days after the outbreak of World War I, as a part of the army and in October 1936 as an independent service.
Swiss Global Air Lines, known as Swiss European Air Lines until February 2015, [5] was a Swiss airline and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines. Like its parent, Swiss Global was part of the Star Alliance. It had its legal headquarters [6] in Basel; the physical head office was on the grounds of Zürich Airport and the ...