TCS with Alpine Air Ambulance also active in the air

Up to the end of last year, the AAA had already completed over 600 such patient transport flights. So the service has started very positively. The feedback from patients and their relatives has been altogether positive. This feedback motivates the entire AAA team.

The AAA partner companies
The Alpine Air Ambulance is a joint venture of TCS and the Lions Air Group. For over 25 years, the Lions Air Group has been an established and successful aviation company at Zurich airport. Also belonging to them is a further Viasuisse share-holder, the Skymedia.

Insurance benefits are visible
The Alpine Air Ambulance works as operator for the TCS, which means, it organises all medically necessary transports and repatriations of TCS members – within Switzerland, from abroad back to Switzerland, or in foreign countries. In doing this, the Alpine Air Ambulance always operates under the name of the TCS and communicates this also to patients.

The AAA fleet
As a member of the Lions Air Group, the Alpine Air Ambulance have Skymedia helicopters and the aeroplanes of Lions Air at their disposal. The Lions Air Group also own the ambulance transport company EuroMedTrans, which operates another two modern ambulances in TCS colours.

The aeroplanes equipped for medical transport come from the partner company Tyrol Air Ambulance based in Innsbruck, which uses Cessna Citation, Gulfstream G100 and Dornier 328 planes. As a new deal for Switzerland, benefiting from a partnership with Hello and Bucher Leichtbau AG, Alpine Air Ambulance can employ even an Airbus A320 for mass evacuation operations. Through existing partnerships and a broad portfolio, a very high quota of use for the whole fleet can be achieved.