PRIVATAIR

'PrivatAir' is an airline based in Geneva, Switzerland, specializing in scheduled and charter flights using mid-sized, long-range, all premium class jets. It operates exclusively business class flights which include transatlantic operations for Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines, KLM and corporate shuttles for Airbus. It has main bases at Paris Le Bourget Airport (LBG), Bradley International Airport (BDL), Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA), Hamburg Finkenwerder (XFW), Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS), Munich International Airport (MUC), Amsterdam Schipol Airport (AMS) and Zurich International Airport (ZRH). ^[1]

Contents

Code Data

History

Services

Fleet

See also

External links

References

Code Data

★ ICAO Code: 'PTI'

★ Callsign: PrivatAir ^[2]

★ ICAO Code for aircraft registered in Germany: 'PTG'

★ Callsign: PrivatJet ^[2]

History

The airline was established and began operations in 1977. It received its Swiss air operators certificate in June 1995. In August 2000, PrivatAir acquired Flight Services Group in the USA. PrivatAir Group was formed. In May 2003 PrivatAir and Swissport created the joint company PrivatPort dealing in an executive jet handling business, initially in Geneva. PrivatPort holds a 49% holding in PrivatAir. ^[4]

Services

PrivatAir operates scheduled services to the following international destinations (as of November 2005):^[1] Chicago, Düsseldorf, Munich, Amsterdam, Zürich, Houston and Newark, NJ.

Fleet

The PrivatAir fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2006) ^[6]:

'PrivatAir Fleet'

'Type'	'Number'	'Seats'	'Orders/Options'
Airbus A319-100	2	126	0/0
Airbus A319-100LR	2	48	0/0
Boeing 737-700BBJ	3	48	0/0
Boeing 737-800	1	56	0/0
Boeing 757-200	1	49	0/0
Boeing 767-300ER	1	56	0/0
Boeing 787-8	0		1/0

PrivatAir has ordered a single Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to replace its Boeing 767 early in the next decade. It will be the first commercial aviation business specialist to operate the aircraft, which will be painted in a blue livery, a variation of the red scheme used on its other aircraft^[7].

See also

★ Eos Airlines

★ MAXjet Airways

★ Silverjet

★ L'Avion

External links

★ PrivatAir

★ PrivatAir Fleet Detail

References

1. PrivatAir: Current Services
2. Airline Codes November 2006
3. Airline Codes November 2006
4. PrivatAir: Corporate History March 2007
5. PrivatAir: Current Services
6. Planespotters.net
7. Airliner World, February 2007