Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Helvetic Airways have agreed to extend their long-standing partnership for an additional five years. Under this wet-lease agreement, Helvetic Airways will operate up to 15 advanced and carbon-efficient Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft, as well as its predecessor models, on behalf of SWISS for its European route network. All aircraft are leased together with crews.
“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 will operate up to nine aircraft for SWISS during the upcoming winter season, with up to 15 aircraft expected to be in service during the busy 2025 summer schedule.
