SWISS wants to halve wet lease fleet next winter

Because of the issues with the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan engines and the elevated demand, SWISS shall be wanting capability this summer time. Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr just lately mentioned that SWISS is grounding a 3rd of the Airbus A220 fleet and a few A320neos because the engines are below restore. In the mean time it will solely be two A220s.

SWISS will complement capability this summer time by hiring roughly 26 plane. Fifteen Helvetic Airways Embraers are on their approach for SWISS nowadays. airBaltic has 11 of its 41 Airbus A220-300s in service for the Swiss airline, though 10 of those are additionally grounded for engine repairs.

Timetable
SWISS will fly from Zurich to 63 brief and medium-haul locations this winter and from Geneva to 21 such locations. The corporate will fly extra from Zurich to German cities equivalent to Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and Hanover subsequent winter and can return to Bremen after 5 years.

Amsterdam is served 28 occasions per week, as a lot as Barcelona. The frequencies to Prague and Bucharest are served extra usually, whereas Lisbon and Porto in Portugal are additionally getting extra flights. SWISS will once more function flights between Zurich and Vienna with Austrian Airways.