New Swiss airline FlyBAIR launches crowdfunding campaign

Initiators of a new regional "people's airline" to be based in Switzerland’s capital Bern, have started a crowdfunding campaign to launch it ahead of the 2020 summer holiday travel season. FlyBAIR, which was presented to the public Nov 1, plans to begin operating daily direct flights from Bern to several European holiday destinations in Spain, Italy and Greece from May 1 2020. Later in the year, it hopes to connect the city to a major hub such as Munich, Amsterdam or London. Currently, no commercial airlines serve the airport in the Swiss capital. Passengers must travel to the airports at Geneva, 93mi to the southwest, or Zurich, 75mi to the northeast, in order to reach any other destination by air. FlyBAIR explains that it needs CHF2.5m (US$2.5m) to launch. About 41% of that goal had been reached. <br/>