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02 November 2011

Helvetic Airways launches Bristol-Zurich Service and announces the summer 2012 schedule

Helvetic Airways has announced the first part of the release of the summer 2012 schedule from Zurich and Bern-Belp to European destinations on scheduled and charter flights. Simultaneously Helvetic Airways announced the direct link to Bristol, from December 5, 2011. Flights linking the South West with the Swiss financial centre will operate three times a week, directly from Zurich to Bristol.

NEW: Non-Stop flight in winter 2011/12 to Bristol
Bristol Airport is located just eight miles from South West England’s principal city, Bristol, and fifteen miles from the historic city of Bath. Bristol is equally attractive for both, the business and leisure traveller and offers an excellent starting point for trips to Bath and the coastlines of Devon and Cornwall. The direct Bristol service provides businesses across the region with a convenient link to Switzerland, saving time spent on surface journeys to airports outside the South West.

Bruno Jans, CEO of Helvetic Airways said: "With flights to Bristol, we develop our service in an economically strong region of the British Isles, providing many business travellers with a fast connection to Zurich. For Swiss tourists Bristol Airport is an ideal starting point for individual trips".

Shaun Browne, Aviation director at Bristol Airport, said: "Zurich is a key business destination, and this direct link means that the South West is once again connected to this globally important financial centre. It also enables the region to market its attractions to Swiss tourists, for whom the UK currently represents great value for money".

Summer schedule 2012From Zurich daily flights operate to Bari (Apulia) and twice a week to Brindisi and Rostock. In midsummer, flights will serve Lamezia Terme twice a week. From Bern flights to Palma de Mallorca will be offered twice a week and once a week to the southern Italian destination Brindisi as well as Catania and Olbia.

Within the next few weeks further destinations will be listed.

Tickets can be purchased via www.helvetic.com and go on sale today. All flights will be launched in the current GDS within the next days.


Swiss regional airline Helvetic Airways provides a range of short- and medium-haul air services from various Swiss airports. The carrier deploys its Embraer E190-E2, E195-E2 and E190-E1 aircraft on scheduled, charter and wet-lease flights. At least six Helvetic Airways Embraer E190-E2s and E195-E2s are being operated in winter 2023/24 and summer 2024 on behalf of Swiss International Air Lines in summer 2023 under a long-term wet-lease agreement.

The Helvetic Airways workforce numbers over 510 employees. The company also has its own maintenance hangar and operation at Zurich Airport, which is further home to its corporate head office. The airline offers innovative part-time employment models to its cockpit and cabin personnel. For its cabin attendants these include ‘Ski&Fly’, ‘Fly&Study’ and the fully flexible ‘Fly your way’ model. Details of current vacancies at Helvetic will be found at career.helvetic.com.

Helvetic Airways has been working closely with Horizon Swiss Flight Academy AG (www.horizon-sfa.ch), which is based in Kloten, Switzerland, since 2008. Both companies are part of the Helvetic Airways Group, which is domiciled in Freienbach, Switzerland.

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