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SWISS offers more points and flights in its summer schedules

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will be further adjusting its range of servicesfrom Zurich and Geneva in its 2016 summer schedules. Alicante in Spain will receivescheduled service from Zurich, while the vacation destination of Lamezia Terme inSouthern Italy will be served from Geneva. The new summer schedules will also seefrequencies increased to various existing European and intercontinenta...

Easyjet plane stopped just in time after spanner spotted stuck on wing

An Easyjet flight averted possible disaster after a passenger spotted a spanner stuck on the wing of the plane just moments before take-off.  According to reports the passenger - known only as Christopher - alerted the pilot who was about to departed on a flight from Geneva to Copenhagen.  Luckily for all on board the flight was halted just in the nick of t...

Albinati Aeronautics celebrates 15 years of operation

Albinati Aeronautics is celebrating 15 years of operations. The company was founded by Stefano Albinati in February 2001, when the company took its first aircraft under management. In 2005, Albinati Aeronautics obtained a Swiss AOC and made its first steps as a commercial operator. The same year it established its CAMO department (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization). In 2009 an...

Air Zermatt signs as launch customer for Marenco SKYe SH09

Marenco Swisshelicopter has secured a launch customer for its developmental SKYe SH09 light single, with Swiss firm Air Zermatt placing a firm order for a single example of the 2.6t rotorcraft. Delivery to the operator is due begin in 2017, on the back of European Aviation Safety Agency certification, says Marenco chief executive Martin Stucki. Although initially only for one aircr...

Solar Impulse plane makes first maintenance flight in Hawaii

The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 has made a successful test flight in Hawaii, where it has been grounded for repairs on its round-the-world trek, the Swiss-based project said Saturday. "The first Solar Impulse 2 maintenance flight took place on Friday 26 of February (and) was uneventful. The plane took off from Kalaeloa airport at 4:32PM UTC [GMT] with our test pilot, Markus Scherdel,...

Marenco Swisshelicopter Flies Second SKYe Prototype

Marenco Swisshelicopter’s second flight-test SKYe SH09 prototype, dubbed P2, made its maiden flight today from the company’s headquarters at Mollis Airport in Switzerland. The helicopter took off at 5:24 p.m. local time with chief test pilot Richard Trueman at the controls and flight-test engineer Peter Wittwer analyzing real-time data. “This first fli...

Mille and Airbus Create a Watch for Highfliers

At first glance, watchmaking and aviation would seem to occupy opposite ends of the manufacturing spectrum. And yet the watchmaker Richard Mille, whose Swiss brand is best known for fashioning avant-garde timepieces from space-age materials, found enough similarities between the two worlds to co-design a watch with Airbus Corporate Jets, or ACJ. As the ACJ managing director, Benoit Defforge, pu...

Swiss adds connectivity but breaks from parent’s pricing scheme

“Ce n’est pas Suisse”, say the Genèvois whenever something new or unusual comes their way (especially from overseas), but the Swiss national airline is finally adding inflight connectivity, more than a decade after parent Lufthansa. Swiss is, however, going its own way with particularly expensive per-megabyte pricing for its first foray into inflight Internet, and...

TAG Aviation Geneva adds second Gulfstream G200

TAG Aviation has added a second Gulfstream G200 (HB-IUV) to its Geneva based charter fleet. “We are delighted to have this Geneva-based second Gulfstream G200 join our charter fleet. The aircraft is immediately available and can be fully dedicated to charter without the need for the owner’s prior release.” said Andrew Hodgson, director of charter Europe, TAG Aviation, “I...

Jet Aviation Zurich has another successful WEF

Jet Aviation Zurich has spent months preparing for the VIP customers that arrived in Zurich to attend the 46th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, held from 20-23 January 2016 in Davos, Switzerland. The company served the majority of aircraft and passengers attending WEF, handling 612 movements and 1,830 passengers while supporting fuel sales of 1.5 million litres. The annual event dr...

Swiss Aviation Consulting expands into Asia

Swiss Aviation Consulting is setting up an affiliate in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Swiss AeroConsultant (Asia) Sdn. Bhd. was officially incorporated in December 2015. The company selected Malaysia for its central location in the Southeast Asian market and for the availability of qualified staff who, in addition to English and the local Bahasa, speaks the languages of Swiss Aviation Consulting&rsq...

ExecuJet reports record traffic at Dubendorf FBO

ExecuJet Aviation Group is celebrating another successful World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting at Davos-Klosters last week. ExecuJet saw record traffic and fuelling at Dübendorf Airport, the military airport just 5nm north of Zürich secured for overflow traffic. “The World Economic Forum is one of the busiest times of the year for business jets tra Basil Gamper, FBO m...