Swiss International Air Lines

Lufthansa Group is reassigning some of its airlines’ top executives as the company sets up a groupwide taskforce to improve customer satisfaction.

Cabin crew at Swiss have until Dec. 19 to approve a new labor deal that has been agreed to between the airline and its unions, following months of negotiations.

Swiss cannot reduce the number of wet-leased aircraft it planned to operate in summer 2024 and must invest further to increase punctuality.

Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (Swiss) is preparing for the grounding of several of its Airbus A220s and A320neos.

Aiming to hike capacity by 10% for 2024, Swiss International Air Lines will bring its last remaining stored Airbus A320s back from Amman, Jordan.

The major network expansion will see Lufthansa’s seats in the U.S. market grow by 16% in 2024, Group CEO Carsten Spohr said.

SWISS operates some of the oldest Airbus A220-100s, which were delivered to the carrier as former Bombardier CS100s from 2016 onward.

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A large number of Airbus A320neos, A220s and Embraer E2 aircraft are parked as Pratt & Whitney struggles with retrofits and engine supply.

Lufthansa Group carriers Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss International are gearing up to carefully manage the summer peak.

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr expects engine shortages will continue to significantly affect the group’s airlines, particularly Swiss.

German companies Lufthansa Technik and BASF say the surface technology will achieve more efficiency gains and a CO2 emission reduction of up to 3%.

The latest new route announcements, schedule changes and codeshares.

Claus Bauer, head of technical fleet management, discusses the airline’s maintenance strategy for the post-pandemic service ramp-up.

SWISS’s hub-and-spoke system in Zurich plans to operate at 85% of pre-pandemic capacity levels in 2023.

SWISS is considering whether it should acquire more Airbus A350s beyond the five A350-900s it ordered in December 2022.

The latest new route announcements, schedule changes and codeshares.

When IATA launched its New Distribution Capability (NDC) in 2012, it was heralded as a way for airlines to take greater control of their products.

The 15th regional route development event will unite some of the biggest carriers in Europe and across the world to drive sustained growth for the region’s route networks.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

We reveal the largest airline networks across Europe by total capacity in November 2021.

Virgin Australia’s domestic expansion, the addition of Beirut to Swiss’ network, and Volotea’s tender win in Sardinia are among the latest route announcements and services resuming.

Finnair’s new codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines, flydubai adding a second destination in Romania, and PLAY’s Amsterdam launch plans are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

SWISS is adding the route as it transitions to offering more leisure services.