Swiss International Air Lines will be expanding its portfolio of destinations from the start of the winter schedules. The carrier is planning 83 destinations from Zurich and 26 from Geneva.. That's around 80% of 2019 capacity.
The programme features a greater number of destinations than during the pre-pandemic winter of 2019/2020. However, there will be fewer frequencies per segment.
Tamur Goudarzi Pour, Chief Commercial Officer of SwissIn view of the difficult operating environment in the European aerospace sector as a whole this summer, we are working to further stabilise our operations for the next winter flight programme. This will enable us to offer our passengers a more extensive programme than before the pandemic. However, we have acted conservatively. We have therefore reduced certain frequencies to ensure the greatest possible stability in flight schedules ".
A Genevain addition to long-haul services to New York, Swiss will serve this winter 25 European destinations. In particular, services to Scandinavia will be strengthened. This winter, the carrier will be offering an additional weekly flight to Stockholmthree for Gothenburg and three for Copenhagen. The frequency of flights to Funchal and Tenerife will also be increased during the winter season.
The most frequently served destinations also include London, Athens, Lisbon, Marrakech, Porto and Nice. Finally, Swiss will continue to operate daily flights with Brusselslaunched this summer in collaboration with Brussels Airlines.
The only new feature: Zurich-Bristol
Departing from Zurichpassengers will be able to travel with Swiss to 61 European destinations and 22 intercontinental destinations. For the first time, the airline will offer a direct service to Bristol in England. Bristol will be served once a week from 4 February 2023. In other news, Swiss to continue summer services to Bologna, Nantes, Sofia and Vilnius. Services to Belgrade, Porto, Alicante, Barcelona and Malaga will also be strengthened.
On the intercontinental network, Swiss will be expanding its services to Asia. Bangkok will once again be served daily, while Singapore, Delhi and Mumbai will be served six times a week.. Finally, next winter, for the first time, passengers will have access to a Premium Economy Class on the entire Boeing 777 fleet.
