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Swiss with its Zurich hub and a second base in Geneva, plus leisure airlines such as Edelweiss.
15 airlines
Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.
Swiss International Air Lines
LX / SWR
The Swiss network airline with the red tail: created in 2002 from Crossair and the legacy of Swissair, today part of the Lufthansa Group and a Star Alliance member.
Swissair
SR / SWR
Historic Swiss national airline from 1931 to 2002: Swissair flew the Caravelle, DC-8, Boeing 747, MD-11 and A330 from Zurich, Geneva and Basel to the world – until the grounding in October 2001.
Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.
Airlines focused on vacation destinations – in scheduled service and for tour operators.
Balair
Historic Swiss airline (1925–2001): co-founder of Swissair as Basler Luftverkehrs AG, from 1953 charter and relief flight specialist of the Swissair group, merged with Geneva-based CTA into BalairCTA in 1993 and shut down in October 2001 with the end of Swissair.
Belair Airlines
4T / BHP
Historic Swiss leisure airline from Zurich: founded in 2001 by Hotelplan as the successor to Balair, from 2007 gradually part of Air Berlin and grounded with its collapse in October 2017.
Chair Airlines
CS / CSW
The small Swiss leisure and Balkan airline from Glattbrugg: founded in 2014 as Germania Flug, flying as Chair since 2019 and based in Zurich and Basel with a handful of Airbus A319s and A320s.
Edelweiss Air
WK / EDW
The leisure airline from Zurich with the alpine flower on its tail: founded in 1995, a sister of SWISS in the Lufthansa Group since 2008 and right in the middle of the switch from the A340 to the A350.
Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.
Crossair
LX / CRX
Historic regional airline from Basel: founded in 1975 by Moritz Suter as an air taxi company, launch customer of the Saab 340 and Saab 2000, and in 2002 the foundation of Swiss International Air Lines.
Darwin Airline
F7 / DWT
Historic regional airline from Ticino: founded in Lugano in 2003, flew the Saab 2000 and ATR 72-500, marketed as Etihad Regional from 2014 and dissolved at the end of 2017 after losing its license.
SkyWork Airlines
SX / SRK
Historic Swiss regional airline from Belp near Bern (1983–2018): from flight school through business jets to scheduled service with the Dornier 328, Dash 8 Q400 and Saab 2000 – until bankruptcy on August 29, 2018.
Companies that fly aircraft with crew for other airlines, tour operators or sports teams.
Air Zermatt
AZF
The helicopter airline from the foot of the Matterhorn: Air Zermatt has flown mountain rescue, transport and sightseeing flights in Upper Valais since 1968 – with H125s and Bell 429s from the Zermatt and Raron heliports.
Helvetic Airways
2L / OAW
The Swiss Embraer specialist from Zurich: Helvetic Airways flies the E190, E195 and the new E2 generation, mainly on wet lease for SWISS, plus charters and its own vacation flights from Zurich and Bern.
PrivatAir
PV / PTI
Historic Geneva premium airline: started in 1977 as the corporate flight department of the Latsis family, later a wet-lease partner for Lufthansa, Swiss, KLM and SAS with business-only jets – insolvent at the end of 2018.
Rega – Swiss Air Rescue
SAZ
Swiss air rescue as a foundation: three Challenger 650 ambulance jets at Zurich Airport, a helicopter fleet in transition to the H145 D3, 14 operating bases – and a failed all-weather project with the AW169-FIPS.
Government flight services and state carriers that fly government members and delegations.
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