Darwin Airline , operating under the Etihad Regional brand since January 2014, is a Swiss regional airline headquartered at Lugano Airport [1] , operating in the field of regular domestic and international passenger traffic in Italy , France , Spain , the UK , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Germany , the Netherlands , Serbia and Switzerland.
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| Established | 2003 | |||
| Base airports | Lugano Airport | |||
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| bonus program | Etihad Guest | |||
| Tagline | Flying evolution | |||
| Fleet size | 12 | |||
| Destinations | 36 | |||
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| Headquarters |  Bern , Switzerland | |||
| Site | http://www.etihadregional.com/ (inaccessible link) | |||
The carrier’s port of registry and its main transit hub ( hub ) is Lugano Airport, and Geneva International Airport is used as another main hub [2] .
Content
History
Darwin Airline was founded on August 12, 2003, and began operations on July 28 of the following year. As of October 2013, 220 people were employed by the carrier [2] .
On November 25, 2010, Darwin Airline announced plans to acquire Baboo early next year. It was assumed that the combined carrier will carry out part of the routes under the previous Baboo brand , the remaining flights will go under the Darwin Airline brand with a significant increase in the frequency of flights to these destinations [3] .
On September 2, 2013, it opened an additional hub at Cambridge Airport , from which regular passenger transportation began to be carried out to Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Paris (Charles de Gaulle) , Milan (Malpensa) and its Geneva hub on Saab 2000 aircraft [4] .
On November 17, 2013, Etihad Airways announced the acquisition of one-third of Darwin Airline's ownership. After the transaction ended in January 2014, the Swiss company continued to service its route network, but already under the Etihad Regional trademark, indicating “operated by Darwin Airline” (“flights are operated by Darwin Airline”) [5] . The first plane in the new coloring flew on January 17, 2014 from Lugano to Geneva; The company announced that all ten Saab 2000 aircraft will be repainted under the new brand by the end of June 2014. Four leased ATR 72-500 liners changed their liveries immediately after they were available to Darwin Airline [6] .
In March 2014, Darwin Airline stopped flights from Rome Fiumicino Airport to Ancona / Falconara Airport and Trapani Airport due to cabotage restrictions in force outside the EU [7] [8] . Two months earlier, for the same reason, the airline was forced to eliminate the regular route from Fiumicino to Aosta Vali Airport [9] .
In February 2014, Etihad Regional stopped flying on regular routes from Berlin to Poznan and Wroclaw [10] , as well as from Rome Fiumicino to Zagreb .
Routing Network
In April 2014, Etihad Regional 's scheduled scheduled transportation network covered the following destinations [11] :
Austria
- Linz - Linz Airport
France
- Biarritz - Airport Biarritz — Anglet — Bayonne (seasonal)
- Bordeaux - Bordeaux Airport
- Lyon - Lyon Saint Exupery Airport
- Paris - Paris (Charles de Gaulle)
- Toulouse - Toulouse Airport
Germany
- Dusseldorf - Dusseldorf International Airport
- Leipzig - Airport Leipzig / Halle - ( hub ) [12]
- Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport
Italy
- Bolzano - Bolzano Airport - under the brand Alitalia
- Cagliari - Cagliari Elmas Airport (seasonal)
- Catania - Catania Fontanarossa Airport
- Florence - Florence Perelot Airport
- Olbia - Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (seasonal)
- Palermo - Palermo Airport
- Pantelleria - Pantelleria Airport
- Rome - Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (Fiumicino) - ( hub )
- Lampedusa - Lampedusa Airport
- Trapani - Trapani Airport
- Turin - Turin Airport
- Verona - Verona International Airport
Netherlands
- Amsterdam - Schiphol Airport
Serbia
- Belgrade - Nikola Tesla Airport [13]
Spain
- Ibiza - Ibiza Airport (seasonal)
- Valencia - Valencia Airport
Switzerland
- Geneva - Geneva International Airport - ( hub )
- Lugano - Lugano Airport - ( hub )
- Zurich - Zurich Airport
Great Britain
- Cambridge - Cambridge Airport - ( hub )
Fleet
In April 2014, Etihad Regional Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft [14] :
| Type of aircraft | In operation | Passenger seats |
| ATR 72-500 | four | 48-78 |
| Saab 2000 | eight | 50 |
| Total | 12 |
In March 2014, Etihad Regional leased four ATR 72-500 aircraft.
Notes
- ↑ Contatti Archived on April 8, 2010. . ”Darwin Airline. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Directory: World Airlines, Flight International (3 April 2007), p. 71.
- ↑ Switzerland's Darwin to take over Baboo operations . Flight International (November 25, 2010). Date of treatment November 25, 2010.
- ↑ Darwin Airline verbindet Leipzig mit Amsterdam und Paris
- ↑ Dubai Airshow: Etihad Rebrands Swiss Carrier Darwin With 33% Stake »Gulf Business
- ↑ [1] , Etihad and Qatar Airways Enter New Territory , Aviation Week & Space Technology , 27 January 2014, p. 31
- ↑ Darwin Airlines perde due collegamenti
- ↑ L'Europa toglie due rotte alla Darwin (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 4, 2014. Archived on February 3, 2014.
- ↑ Volo Aosta-Fiumicino, Darwin bocciata
- ↑ Darwin Airline shelves Berlin Tegel route launch plans - ch-aviation.com
- ↑ Etihad Regional flight tickets promotions cheap fares, Darwin Airline suisse airline company based in Geneva Archived on April 24, 2014.
- ↑ Darwin launches Leipzig to Paris and Amsterdam Archived on October 6, 2014.
- ↑ Darwin Airline - ETIHAD Regional Unveils Schedules for New Routes in S14
- ↑ Swiss Aircraft Register . FOCA. Date of appeal October 31, 2013.