SWISS

SWISS is to receive five further new Airbus A350-900 aircraft from 2027 onwards, in addition to the five which it already has on order.

Oslo will be added to the Geneva-based network; and the existing Geneva destinations of Copenhagen and Stockholm will also be newly served in the summer timetable period.

Following successful trials in Scandinavia, SWISS is expanding its ‘Green Fares’ programme throughout Europe together with the Lufthansa Group.

Starting in June, Lufthansa, Eurowings and SWISS will be offering monthly restart schedules to significantly more destinations in Germany and Europe than in the past few weeks. The repatriation schedules will thus end on 31 May. A total of 80 aircraft will be reactivated with the ‘June timetable’. This means that a total of 106 […]

The Swiss government will provide CHF 1.9 billion (USD 1.96 billion) to the domestic aviation sector to bridge liquidity shortfalls as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Some CHF 1.275 billion (USD 1.31 billion) will go directly for the two airlines, Swiss and Edelweiss, while up to CHF 600 million (USD 618 million) will be […]

SWISS launched yet another special repatriation flight, from Zurich to Kolkata and Kochi to Zurich on behalf of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). On 25 April, the Airbus A340-300 aircraft left Kolkata with 49 passengers. It then landed in Kochi, where 164 passengers joined the flight. With a total of 213 passengers […]

After just over a month, the repatriation programmes of various European governments and numerous tourism providers have almost been fully completed. All airlines in the Lufthansa Group have supported their respective governments by providing return flights. Since 13 March 2020, Lufthansa Group airlines have repatriated around 90,000 holidaymakers and travellers. 437 special flights departed from […]

The spread of the coronavirus has placed the entire world in an unprecedented state of emergency. At present, no one can foresee what further consequences will ensue. What is certain, however, is that additional medical personnel will be needed. As a large German company, Lufthansa Group is living up to its social responsibility even in […]

In order to counteract the economic impact of the coronavirus at an early stage, Lufthansa is implementing several measures to lower costs: among other things, all new hires planned for the airline with the crane will be reassessed, suspended or deferred to a later date. Lufthansa is also offering employees unpaid leave effective immediately. Budget […]

Swiss International Air Lines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320neo aircraft at a delivery ceremony in Hamburg, Germany. Named ‘Engelberg’, the plane is the first of 25 aircraft SWISS will receive between now and the end of 2024, of which 17 will be A320neos and the other eight, the larger A321neo version. The […]