Chair Airlines


Chair Airlines AG, branded as chair and formerly named Germania Flug, is a Swiss airline headquartered in Glattbrugg in Greater Zurich and based at Zürich Airport.

History

Germania Flug

The airline was founded in August 2014, in cooperation with the German airline Germania and Swiss leisure company Hotelplan, with the aim to operate leisure charter flights using the brand HolidayJet. Following the inaugural flight on 26 March 2015, for the summer of 2015, Germania Flug operated from Zürich to 17 leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa. It was planned to continue operating the same for the winter of 2015/2016.
However, from November 2015, Germania Flug stopped its collaboration with HolidayJet and has operated solely under its own brand name since then. In summer 2016, Germania Flug operated scheduled flights around Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, and North Africa. In addition to this, it served Pristina and Skopje on behalf of virtual airline Air Prishtina.

Chair Airlines

Germania Flug was not affected by the bankruptcy of its then German shareholder Germania in February 2019, and continued its operations under this name. Shortly after that, it was announced that all shares formerly held by the German Germania branch had been sold to Albex Aviation, which also owns Air Prishtina. On 11 June 2019 the airline was rebranded to Chair Airlines.

Destinations

As of June 2019, Chair Airlines operates flights to the following regularly scheduled and seasonal destinations under its own brand name:
CityCountry/RegionAirportNotes
Basel/MulhouseSwitzerlandEuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
BeirutLebanonBeirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport
BurgasBulgariaBurgas Airport
CalviFranceCalvi - Sainte-Catherine Airport
DjerbaTunisiaDjerba–Zarzis International Airport
GenevaSwitzerlandGeneva
HeraklionGreeceHeraklion International Airport
HurghadaEgyptHurghada International Airport
IbizaSpainIbiza Airport
KosGreeceKos International Airport
LarnacaCyprusLarnaca International Airport
Marsa AlamEgyptMarsa Alam International Airport
OhridNorth MacedoniaOhrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport
PristinaKosovoPristina International Airport
RhodesGreeceRhodes International Airport
Sharm El SheikhEgyptSharm El Sheikh International Airport
SkopjeNorth MacedoniaSkopje International Airport
ZadarCroatiaZadar Airport
ZürichSwitzerlandZurich Airport

Fleet

The Chair Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft :