PrivatAir

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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. ^[1]

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Code Data

ICAO Code: PTI
Callsign: PrivatAir ^[2]
ICAO Code for aircraft registered in Germany: PTG
Callsign: PrivatJet ^[3]

[edit] 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]

[edit] Services

PrivatAir operates scheduled services to the following international destinations (as of November 2005):^[5] Chicago, Düsseldorf, Munich, Amsterdam, Zürich, Houston and Newark, NJ.

[edit] 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 recently acquired 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 current red scheme used on its other aircraft^[7].