SWISS’s new fleet flagship, the Boeing 777-300ER, will enter revenue service in the course of the coming 2015/16 winter schedules. The new long-haul twinjet will be deployed on services between Zurich and New York from early 2016.
SWISS will also be increasing frequencies on its Zurich-São Paulo and Zurich-Miami routes in its winter schedules, in response to rising demand. From December onwards travellers will enjoy ten weekly services to São Paulo and 14 to Miami.
The Hub+ portfolio, which was introduced in spring of this year to provide Switzerland with better connections to its neighbouring countries, will also be adjusted to meet winter-season demand. These adjustments see 20 of the 22 summer-schedule destinations retained, including Dresden, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Krakow and Sofia. And vacation destinations Bilbao, Izmir, Malta and Porto will also continue to be served.
SWISS will be modifying its portfolio of destinations from Geneva, too, for the winter timetable period, to better meet seasonal customer needs. Frequencies to Portugal, for instance, will be increased, with Lisbon and Porto each receiving five weekly flights. Service to Russia will also be intensified: Moscow will have 14 weekly frequencies from Geneva during the winter timetable period; and St. Petersburg will receive one weekly Geneva flight rising to three during peak times (29 December to 9 January and 18 to 27 February).
SWISS offers 105 destinations (79 European and 26 intercontinental) in 49 countries in its 2015/16 winter timetable. The new schedules are valid from 25 October 2015 to 26 March 2016.
More Edelweiss flights to sunny destinations
SWISS will also offer services to various leisure destinations all over the world in the 2015/16 winter season together with its sister carrier Edelweiss. In addition to flights to such dream destinations as the Maldives, Cape Town or Phuket, Edelweiss will be operating its first-ever service to Cuba’s capital Havana – two weekly flights – in the winter period, too. Edelweiss’s European frequencies will also be expanded, with Palma de Mallorca, Larnaca, Antalya and Catania all receiving several flights a week during the winter months, and more frequencies offered to Pristina and Skopje, too.
