Lions Air is a charter airline based in Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. It operates air charter and business services, using fixed wing aircraft and helicopters.

History

The airline was established in 1986 by pilot, Jürg Fleischmann. It has about 30 employees (at July 2007). In June 2005 Lions Air planned to lease a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 to start charter flights from Zurich and Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

 to Pristina

Pristina

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, Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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 and Skopje

Skopje

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, but abandoned the plan later in the year.

Fleet

The Lions Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2010) :

• 2 Pilatus PC-12
  Pilatus PC-12
  The Pilatus PC-12 is a single-engine turboprop passenger and cargo aircraft manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. The main market for the aircraft is corporate transport and regional airliner operators.-Design and development:...
  
  

The PC-12 aircraft are operated under Lions Air's "TimeJet Program", a fractional ownership program on behalf of private companies.