Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines to suspend flights to/from mainland China until 9 February
The coronavirus outbreak has forced Lufthansa Group members Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines to suspend their flights to/from (mainland) China until 9 February. For...
SWISS flights to Beijing to serve new Daxing International Airport from end of March
SWISS will be switching its services between Zurich and Beijing to the Chinese capital’s new Beijing Daxing International Airport in March. The move will...
SWISS fully refurbished its Airbus A340 fleet
SWISS concluded the cabin refurbishment programme for its Airbus A340 aircraft fleet in mid-January. All five fleet members have now been provided with a...
SWISS sets another passenger record in 2019: +4.7% over 2018
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported 18,781,440 passengers in 2019, a 4.7% increase on the previous (record) year. A total of 150,957 flights were...
SWISS to serve six new destinations from Geneva in summer 2020
SWISS will be adding six attractive new summer destinations to its Geneva-based route network from 22 June. The new services will operate to and...
SWISS carries 6.7% more passengers in November
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported 1,370,913 passengers in November, a 6.7-per-cent increase on the same month last year. The travellers were carried on...
SWISS carries 4.1% more passengers in October
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported 1,686,987 passengers in October, a 4.1% increase on the same month last year. The 13,198 flights operated were...
SWISS asserts strength in a challenging market environment
SWISS achieved adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of CHF 490 million for the first nine months of 2019, an 11-per-cent decline from the...
The Airbus A220 fleet must limit engine power
Users of the Airbus A220 must take into account operational limitations when deploying the aircraft. After a series of incidents with the Pratt &...
SWISS temporarily grounds Airbus A220 (CSeries) fleet
SWISS is facing a technical issue on one of its Airbus A220-100/Airbus A220-300 (previously Bombardier CS100/CS300 series) aircraft types. SWISS is the launch customer...
SWISS carries 4.4% more passengers in the first nine months, 6.4% in September
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported a total of 14,293,356 passengers in the first nine months of this year, a 4.4% increase on the...
New ‘Flugzug’ rail service replaces flights operated by Adria Airways between Lugano and Zurich Airport
A new ‘Flugzug’ rail service between Lugano Station and Zurich Airport is bookable now for travel from 16 October. The cost of the rail...
SWISS adds Ljubljana to its route network
From 16 October onwards, SWISS will be offering a new service to the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, departing from its hub at Zurich Airport....
SWISS brings the Olympic Flame to Switzerland for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne
The city of Lausanne, Switzerland will host the Winter Youth Olympic Games in January 2020. SWISS had the privilege of transporting the Olympic Flame...
SWISS carries 6.7% more passengers in August 2019
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported a total of 1,871,704 passengers in August, a 6.7% increase on the same month last year. The travellers...
SWISS will create 300 new jobs by the end of March 2020 with the acquisition of two additional Boeing 777 aircraft
SWISS will continue to create jobs in 2019 and 2020, and will be recruiting some 700 new personnel between now and the end of...
French BEA calls for witnesses after parts of SWISS A220 engine fell in Eastern France
Call for witnesses dated Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Serious incident concerning Airbus A220-300 HB-JCM operated by SWISS on 25/07/2019 in cruise
During a Geneva-London flight LX348...
SWISS carries 6.4% more passengers in July
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported 1,905,826 passengers in July, 6.4% more than it carried in the same month last year. The 14,173 flights...
Lufthansa Group Airlines welcome around 14.6 million passengers on board in July 2019 (+3.3%)
Number of passengers rises by 3.3 percent year-on-year
Capacity utilisation increases by 0.6 percentage points to 86.9 percent
Strongest passenger growth increase in...
SWISS to introduce new services to Osaka and Washington, D.C.
SWISS is to modify and expand its services in view of the coming delivery of two further Boeing 777-300ER aircraft which were purchased in...