The Air Zermatt rescue card: on the safe side in an emergency

Your health is our mission! The Air Zermatt rescue card offers safety where your compulsory accident and health insurance can no longer provide it.

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The Air Zermatt Rescue Card

Air Zermatt has set global rescue standards worldwide with its pioneering services. The Valais company guarantees the highest quality standard in flight rescues with emergency anesthesia physicians, experienced paramedics, pilots, dispatchers and technicians.
Purchasing the rescue card ensures that you are on the safe side in case of emergency.

You can count on us

The Air Zermatt Rescue Card supports you within the scope of its patronage conditions, respectively General Terms and Conditions with:

Rescue costs not covered by health insurance companies, accident insurance companies or third parties*.
Ambulance services and rescue flights to the hospital
Search flights, rescue operations and evacuations
Coverage of the remaining costs, regardless of the rescue organization
Helicopter transport for injured or dead farm animals
Medically necessary repatriation worldwide
Consultation in case of medical problems abroad

* Franchise and deductible are excluded

After purchasing an Air Zermatt rescue card, you don’t need to do anything more to benefit from the rescue service. Should you happen to have a patronage with another company, no cancellation is necessary – the patronage expires automatically if not renewed.

Support the Valais rescuers with the Air Zermatt Rescue Card and help to maintain highest-quality rescue service 365 days a year.

Single Person
Membership

35 CHF
annually

Persons aged 18 and over or 25 and over who were previously part of the Family Membership.

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Small Family
Membership

45 CHF
annually

Single parent with children up to
the age of 25

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Family/Farmers
Membership

80 CHF
annually

Parents with children up to the age of 25 and fermers with livestock

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Crevasse rescue at the Dufour

«Without Air Zermatt, I wouldn't have had a second chance.»

«Life happens outside, not in the office» says Cornelia Rebsamen. The passionate mountaineer is fulfilling a long-cherished dream with her husband: to climb the Dufourspitze in winter. But the unthinkable happens on the descent. She slips and falls 40 metres into a crevasse. Everything goes black.

Briefly unconscious, then the painful reality. «Am I paralysed? Where is my husband? How do I get out of here?» Despite her serious injury, she manages to alert Air Zermatt with her mobile phone in the icy depths.

Only a short time later, the rescue team is on the scene. A crew consisting of pilots, paramedics and an emergency doctor, together with three rescue specialists, work precisely and calmly to pull Cornelia out of the depths with the help of the tripod. «These people saved my life. Their professional, considered actions were my only chance.»

Many things are different after the accident. She lost her job and her perspective changed. «My life before and after the glacier fall is no longer the same. But I'm still here. And I have Air Zermatt to thank for that.»