People's

People's
IATA ICAO Callsign
PE[1] PEV[2] PEOPLES[2]
Founded 2010
Commenced operations 2011
Operating bases St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport
Fleet size 2
Destinations 11
Headquarters Vienna, Austria
Website peoples.ch

People's,[3] branded as People's Viennaline until May 2018[3] and legally Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH, is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport in Switzerland.[1]

History

Founded as People's Viennaline in 2010, the first revenue flight of the company took place on 27 March 2011.[2] For several years, People's only operated a single scheduled route between its homebase and Vienna. However, the route network has since been expanded with some seasonal and charter services.

In November 2016, People's inaugurated the world's shortest international jet route (and, after St. Maarten-Anguilla, second shortest international route overall). The flight from St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, Switzerland to Friedrichshafen Airport, Germany took only eight minutes of flight over Lake Constance and could‘ve been booked individually. The airline faced severe criticism for this service from politicians and environmental organisations. This leg was part of its then new St.Gallen/Altenrhein-Friedrichshafen-Cologne/Bonn service.[4] However, this entire route has been terminated entirely by the mid of April 2017 due to low passenger numbers.[5] Shortly after, the airline announced to terminate its last remaining route from Friedrichshafen (to Vienna) as well.[6]

In May 2018, People's Viennaline announced a rebrand to the shortended People's in order to reflect their widened route network.[3]

Destinations

Check-in area of People's at their home base St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport
People's Embraer 170

As of May 2018, People's operates one year-round scheduled route and some seasonal scheduled and charter services:[1]

Austria
Croatia
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Spain
Switzerland

Fleet

As of May 2018, People's operates the following aircraft:[9]

People's fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes
Embraer 170 2 76[10]
Total 2

References

  1. 1 2 3 peoples.ch - Timetable retrieved 21 May 2018
  2. 1 2 3 People's Viennaline fleet list and company information at planespotters.net Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 3 ch-aviation.com - Austria's People's Viennaline rebrands as People's 18 May 2018
  4. ↑ http://www.aero.de/news-25346/Peoples-Ritt-ueber-den-Bodensee.html
  5. ↑ austrianwings.info - "People's Viennaline gives up Friedrichshafen and Cologne/Bonn" (German) 31 March 2017
  6. ↑ airliners.de - "People's Viennaline pulls out of Friedrichshafen" (German) 3 April 2017
  7. ↑ http://www.austrianaviation.net/detail/peoples-fliegt-charterfluege-ab-salzburg/
  8. ↑ https://peoples.ch/destinationen/menorca
  9. ↑ "Austrian aircraft register". Austro Control. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  10. ↑ peoples.ch - Flotte (German) retrieved 3 April 2017

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