Hello (airline)
Hello AG was a Swiss charter airline offering holiday flights to destinations around the Mediterranean Sea out of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Geneva Airport and Zürich Airport.
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. In December 2011, the company had 140 employees. 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.The airline went bankrupt and ceased all flight operations on 21 October 2012.
Destinations
Africa
;Cape Verde- Boa Vista: Rabil Airport
- Sal: Amílcar Cabral International Airport
- Hurghada: Hurghada International Airport
- Luxor: Luxor International Airport
- Marsa Alam: Marsa Alam International Airport
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport
- Agadir: Al Massira Airport
- Marrakech: Menara Airport
Europe
- Larnaca: Larnaca International Airport
- 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
- Ohrid: Ohrid Airport
- Skopje: Skopje Alexander the Great Airport
- Funchal: Madeira Airport
- La Palma: La Palma Airport
- Mallorca: Palma de Mallorca Airport
- Tenerife: Tenerife South Airport
- Basel: EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Main Base
- Zurich: Zurich Airport Base
- Antalya: Antalya Airport
Fleet
Fleet at closure
The Hello fleet consisted of the following aircraft :Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers |
Airbus A320-200 | 5 | — | 174 / 180 |
Total | 5 | — |
Previously retired fleet
Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
McDonnell Douglas MD-90 | 6 | 2004 | 2011 | replaced by Airbus A320-200s |