Hello (airline)
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Founded | 2003 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 6 August 2004 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 21 October 2012 | ||||||
Operating bases | |||||||
Parent company | Hello AG | ||||||
Headquarters | Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France | ||||||
Key people | Robert Somers (CEO) | ||||||
Founder | Moritz Suter | ||||||
Website | hello.ch |
Hello AG was a Swiss charter airline offering holiday flights to destinations around the out of EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, Geneva Airport and Zürich Airport.[1]
History
The airline was established in 2003 in Basel by Moritz Suter, who founded Crossair which later became Swiss International Air Lines in 2002, and launched operations on 6 August 2004. Originally being intended as a regional scheduled carrier, it was relaunched on 1 May 2005 as a charter airline.[2] In December 2011, the company had 140 employees.[3] The airline's head office was located at the General Aviation site at the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France, near Basel.[4]
The airline went bankrupt and ceased all flight operations on 21 October 2012.[5]
Destinations
Africa
- Cape Verde
- Boa Vista: Rabil Airport
- Sal: Amílcar Cabral International Airport
- Egypt
- Hurghada: Hurghada International Airport
- Luxor: Luxor International Airport
- Marsa Alam: Marsa Alam International Airport
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport
- Morocco
- Agadir: Al Massira Airport
- Marrakech: Menara Airport
Europe
- Cyprus
- Larnaca: Larnaca International Airport
- Greece
- Corfu: Corfu International Airport
- Heraklion: Heraklion International Airport
- Kefalonia: Kefalonia Island International Airport
- Kos: Kos Island International Airport
- Rhodes: Rhodes International Airport
- Zakynthos: Zakynthos International Airport
- North Macedonia
- Ohrid: Ohrid Airport
- Skopje: Skopje Alexander the Great Airport
- Portugal
- Funchal: Madeira Airport
- Spain
- La Palma: La Palma Airport
- Mallorca: Palma de Mallorca Airport
- Tenerife: Tenerife South Airport
- Switzerland
- Basel: EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Main Base
- Zurich: Zurich Airport Base
- Turkey
- Antalya: Antalya Airport
Fleet
Fleet at closure
The Hello fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of April 2012):[6]
Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers |
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Airbus A320-200 | 5 | — | 174 / 180 |
Total | 5 | — |
Previously retired fleet
Hello previously also operated the following aircraft:[7]
Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
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McDonnell Douglas MD-90 | 6 | 2004 | 2011 | replaced by Airbus A320-200s |
References
- ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 90.
- ^ Hello History Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hello History (bottom of page) Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Hello Location Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine." (Direct image link) Hello. Retrieved on 1 July 2010.
- ^ "Airline-Pleite: Hello in Konkurs – das sind Ihre Rechte". Archived from the original on 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ ch-aviation.ch - Hello
- ^ "planespotters.net - Hello". Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
External links
Media related to Hello (airline) at Wikimedia Commons
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