20.10.2025
Swiss unveils new-look winter schedules
Swiss will fly to 72 destinations in 44 countries under its
2003/04 winter schedules, which come into effect on October
26. The carrier will provide direct services to all key points
in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, while business travellers
within Europe who are based near Basel, Geneva and Zurich
will continue to enjoy convenient early-morning departures
and late-evening returns. Swiss’s 50-seater fleets of
Embraer 145 and Saab 2000 aircraft will be operated in a single-cabin
configuration from the start of the new schedules. Swiss has
been offering air tickets at permanently low prices since
the end of August through its new “Swiss in Europe”
product.
Swiss announced the broad parameters of its new route network,
which will now be adopted with the start of the winter schedules
on October 26, back in July. Swiss will continue to provide
direct scheduled air services to 72 destinations which are
of major importance to Switzerland and the Swiss economy.
The new intercontinental network consists of 30 destinations
in 22 countries, while the European network extends to 42
points, also in 22 countries. The Swiss network will be
further supplemented by the company’s codeshare partners,
who will be providing direct services between Switzerland
and a further ten destinations.
Intercontinental services
Swiss will offer direct services to 30 intercontinental
destinations from Zurich and Geneva.
In North America: Boston (daily), Chicago (daily), Los
Angeles (six times weekly), Miami (daily), New York JFK
(daily from Zurich and daily from Geneva), New York Newark
(six times weekly) and Montreal (six times weekly).
In South America: São Paulo (daily) and Buenos Aires
(five times weekly).
In Asia: Bangkok (daily), Hong Kong (daily), Manila (thrice
weekly), Mumbai (daily), Singapore (daily), Tokyo (five
times weekly) and Karachi (four times weekly).
In the Middle East: Dubai (daily), Jeddah (thrice weekly),
Riyadh (thrice weekly), Muscat (thrice weekly) and Tel Aviv
(twice daily).
In Africa: Cairo (five times weekly), Benghazi (twice weekly),
Tripoli (thrice weekly), Dar es Salaam (thrice weekly),
Douala (twice weekly), Yaounde (weekly), Johannesburg (daily),
Malabo (thrice weekly) and Nairobi (three to four times
weekly).
Five further destinations can be reached directly from
Zurich on services operated by Swiss’s codeshare partners:
Dallas/Fort Worth (daily, operated by American Airlines),
Kuala Lumpur (thrice weekly, operated by Malaysia Airlines),
Colombo (five times weekly, operated by SriLankan Airlines),
Sydney (twice daily, operated by Qantas via Bangkok or Frankfurt),
and Tunis (twice weekly, operated by Tunis Air). Two further
points are served directly by codeshare partners from Geneva:
Tunis (thrice weekly, operated by Tunis Air) and Tel Aviv
(thrice weekly, operated by El Al).
European services
Swiss will offer 42 direct connections on its European network.
Special attention has been paid here to providing early-morning
and late-evening services to and from key business travel
destinations.
Basel
Swiss will serve 14 points from Basel: London Heathrow (thrice
daily), Manchester (twice daily), Birmingham (twice daily),
Brussels (thrice daily), Amsterdam (thrice daily), Vienna
(thrice daily), Berlin Tempelhof (thrice daily), Hamburg
(twice daily), Düsseldorf (thrice daily), Munich (thrice
daily), Barcelona (twice daily), Madrid (daily), Rome (daily)
and Zurich (daily). Lisbon will be served by a daily codeshare
flight operated by Portugalia.
Geneva
Swiss will serve 12 European destinations from Geneva together
with its partners. Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Brussels,
Madrid and Zurich will be provided with several frequencies
a day, facilitating day trips to these destinations.
Swiss will operate its own services to Paris Charles de
Gaulle (six times daily), London Heathrow (four times daily),
Rome (thrice daily), Barcelona (four times daily), Zurich
(nine times daily), Athens (daily), Lisbon (daily), Moscow
(daily) and Malaga (twice weekly).
Direct flights will also be offered to three further destinations
by Swiss’s codeshare partners: Brussels (five times
daily, operated by SN Brussels Airlines), Madrid (four times
daily, operated by Iberia) and Dublin (thrice weekly, operated
by Aer Lingus).
Zurich
Zurich is Swiss’s hub, not only for its intercontinental
services but also for its European network. Swiss will serve
40 destinations in Europe from Zurich:
Amsterdam (five times daily), Athens (twice daily), Barcelona
(five times daily), Basel (daily), Belgrade (daily), Berlin
Tegel (four times daily), Birmingham (thrice daily), Brussels
(six times daily), Bucharest (daily), Budapest (twice daily),
Copenhagen (thrice daily), Dublin (daily), Düsseldorf
(five times daily), Frankfurt (five times daily), Geneva
(nine times daily), Hamburg (five times daily), Hanover
(four times daily), Istanbul (daily), Lisbon (daily), London
City (four times daily), London Heathrow (six times daily),
Lugano (four times daily), Luxembourg (twice daily), Madrid
(five times daily), Malaga (daily), Manchester (twice daily),
Milan (six times daily), Moscow (twice daily), Munich (five
times daily), Nice (thrice daily), Nuremberg (four times
daily), Palma de Mallorca (daily), Paris Charles de Gaulle
(six times daily), Prague (thrice daily), Rome (four times
daily), Thessaloniki (daily), Stockholm (thrice daily),
Stuttgart (five times daily), Vienna (six times daily) and
Warsaw (thrice daily).
Sion, a classic winter destination, will be served by Swiss
from December 20 to April 17. The airport will see a weekly
Zurich-Sion-London-Sion-Zurich service every Saturday, offering
winter tourists from the UK and farther afield a convenient
flight – either directly or via Zurich – into
the Valais Alps.
A further six destinations can be reached from Zurich on
direct flights operated by Swiss’s codeshare partners:
Helsinki (twice daily, operated by Finnair), Kiev (five
times weekly, operated by Ukraine International Airlines),
Skopje (daily, operated by Macedonian Airlines), Graz (twice
daily, operated by Styrian Spirit), Linz (twice daily, operated
by Air Alps) and Valencia (daily, operated by Iberia).
Lugano
Lugano remains in the Swiss network with four daily flights
to and from Zurich.
Codeshares
In addition to the direct connections from Switzerland operated
by codeshare partners listed already, all British Airways
and Swiss services between Zurich and London Heathrow will
be operated as codeshare flights from the start of the winter
schedules. This strategic partnership is expected to be
expanded further to cover all routes between Switzerland
and the UK by early 2004.
In addition to direct service from Switzerland to key partner
hubs, Swiss also codeshares extensively beyond those gateways,
including:
- on American Airlines, via all of Swiss’s US gateway
cities to over 50 points in North and Central America;
- on Iberia, via Madrid and Barcelona, to four destinations
in Spain and Portugal: Bilbao, Oporto, Seville and Valencia;
- on Finnair, via Helsinki to five points in Finland: Turku,
Tampere, Oulu, Vaasa and Jyvaskyla.
Timetable
Monthly updates to the 2003/04 winter schedules can be downloaded
from the internet onto a PC or a PDA. Swiss also produces
its own “Swiss PDA”, an individual timetable that
has been specially designed to run on various PDA brands.
The Swiss timetable is also produced in a print run of 310
000 booklets, and has been available at various sales outlets
around the world since the beginning of this week.
“Swiss in Europe” with a single-class product
Swiss has been offering permanently low-priced Business
and Economy Class fares on its European network since it
launched its new “Swiss in Europe” product at
the end of August. As a further innovation, Swiss’s
50-seat Embraer 145 and Saab 2000 regional aircraft will
be operated in an all-Economy-Class cabin configuration
from the start of the winter schedules. Swiss customers
should visit the www.Swiss.com website to find the lowest
fares for their air travel needs.
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