SWISS has announced it has agreed to extend and broaden its long-standing partnership with fellow Swiss regional carrier Helvetic Airways for a further five years. Under the terms of the agreement, Helvetic Airways will operate up to 15 aircraft throughout the SWISS European network on SWISS’s behalf under the continuing wet-lease deal.

Helvetic will operate a mix of aircraft which will include Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft and their predecessors the E190s and E195s on a wide variety of short and medium-length routes under a wet-lease agreement, meaning that the smaller airline will supply its aircraft with trained flight crews to operate SWISS flights under the SR flight prefix.   

“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, but we can also serve destinations for which our own SWISS aircraft would be too big.”

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