Abstract: This airway for sole esophageal obturator or endotracheal and esophageal-obturator ventilation by choice has an inflatable cuff in the area of the tip of the airway and air-outlets in its wall in the area of the pharynx.To enable the use of the airway in emergency-cases reliably and also to enable the insertion by first-aid-personnel only, the airway has an inflatable pharyngeal cuff known per se and surrounding the wall of the airway above the air-outlets in that area, which, when the airway is inserted, is situated between the soft palate and the boundary between the base of the tongue and the back of the tongue.