Who was most in the Federal Council Jet in 2024
Federal Council Jet becomes a Valais Express: Which federal councils prefer to take the plane for short-haules
New figures show how often the Federal Council Jet is used. Not only for trips abroad, often also for domestic flights, the federal councilors sit on the plane.
On the way in the Federal Council Jet: The then Federal President Viola Amherd after arriving in Oslo in February 2024.
With the Federal Council Jet to the Olma opening. Viola Amherd, then Federal President, traveled from Bern from Bern to St.Gallen last autumn to pose a piglet on her arm for the obligatory photo.
The detour to Eastern Switzerland is two of a total of 24 domestic flights, which the Defense Minister and her entourage made last year with one of the federal fleet aircraft. There are also a dozen helicopter flights. This emerges from the flight data that the departments published on Tuesday.
Frequent flyer Cassis and Amherd
The evaluation shows: Amherd flew home to Valais particularly frequently – or was picked up there. 14 flights from Sitten to Belp or vice versa are recorded. The Federal Council Jet, he becomes a Valais Express. Although one has to hold on: Sitte was sometimes only a stopover of a longer flight.
The jet already has the nickname « Taxi Ticino » Received because Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis often needs him for flights from or to Ticino. Cassis lives with his wife near the Lugano-Agno Airport. In 2024 he flew the Bern – Lugano route 13 times or vice versa, often let himself fly from Ticino to Bern on Monday. Overall, almost half of all flights of Cassis are domestic flights. At Amherd you make a third.
Cassis, followed by Amherd, ends up at the head of the frequent flyers in the Federal Council. And he is also the Federal Council with the most domestic flights. The fact that the Foreign Minister and the incumbent Federal President are the most on axis is not surprising – on the contrary: it belongs to her job profile.
Which Federal Council flew the least?
It looks different with the domestic flights of the Foreign Minister. For example, Cassis took the aircraft to quickly get home after an ice hockey match from Friborg-Gottéron against Lugano. So he let himself fly from Bern to Lugano the day after the match. Cassis also took the planes for commission meetings in the Bundeshaus.
Several planes are available to the Federal Council. Here in the picture: a PC-24.
Significantly less in one of the Federal Council Jets Or Heli sit the rest of the federal councilors. Justice Minister Beat Jans flew a total of 33 routes with the plane, and around every third of them were departure and arrival place in Switzerland. With him, too, the machine takes a striking course on Basel, where he lives. The data show that it is often taken up at home when traveling.
The two SVP magistrates Guy Parmelin (12 aircraft flights) and Albert Rösti (13) were the least in the air. Economics Minister Parmelin and Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume Schneider only let themselves fly home with the helicopter. In the case of Parmelin, the helicop of the helicop is only 200 meters from its farm in Bursin's VD.
Environment Minister Rösti and Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter, on the other hand, never flew from her place of residence to Bern or back. In the case of Rösti, there is also no reasonable reason: he lives only 25 minutes by car from the Bundeshaus.
