Helvetic Airways

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Helvetic Airways is a low-cost airline based in Zürich, Switzerland. It operates low-cost flights to European destinations, mainly leisure markets, but also selected business. Its main base is Zurich International Airport.

Contents

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links

Code Data

IATA Code: 2L
ICAO Code: OAW
Callsign: Helvetic

History

The airline was established in 2001 and started operations on 15 February 2002. It was founded as Odette Airways and was re-branded as Helvetic Airways in September 2003. The first flight as Helvetic Airways took off in November 2003.

It discontinued service on its Zurich-London Luton route on June 2006 and will discontinue service to Barcelona in late July 2006.

Services

Helvetic Airways operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at July 2006):

FYR Macedonia
*Skopje (Skopje Airport)
Hungary
*Balaton (Sármellék International Airport)
Italy
*Brindisi (Papola-Casale Airport)
*Cagliari (Cagliari-Elmas Airport)
*Catania (Catania-Fontanarossa Airport)
*Lamezia Terme (Lamezia Terme International Airport)
*Naples (Naples International Airport)
*Olbia (Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport)
*Palermo (Palermo International Airport)
*Pisa (Galileo Galilei Airport)
*Rimini (Federico Fellini International Airport)
Spain
*Alicante (Alicante Airport)
*Barcelona (Barcelona International Airport)
*Ibiza (Ibiza Airport)
*Málaga (Málaga Airport)
*Palma de Mallorca (Son Sant Joan Airport)
*Valencia (Valencia Airport)
Switzerland
*Zürich (Zürich International Airport)

Fleet

The Helvetic Airways fleet consists of 4 Fokker F100 aircraft (at December 2005). The Fleet has recently been cut-back from 7 to 4 aircraft.

External links

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