News from SWISS

BUSINESS TRAVELLER AWARDS: SWISS RANKED TOP AGAIN

SWISS has again earned several distinctions in this year’s Business Traveller Awards. The readers of the German-based business travel magazine named the carrier ‘Best Airline for North & South America’. SWISS further garnered the ‘Best Business Class’ distinction on the same routes. The airline also triumphed closer to home, where it was declared ‘Best Airline for Europe’ for the fifth consecutive year.

SWISS clearly leaves its competitors behind on its European and North and South American routes – not just in terms of its seat pitch and overall cabin comfort, but also with its service on board and on the ground, for which the carrier secured a further number-one spot in the latest Business Traveller Awards.

NEW BUSINESS CLASS SOON IN ALL AIRBUS A340

After the successful introduction of the new SWISS Business Class on the Airbus A340 to San Francisco, Boston, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Johannesburg, SWISS customers will soon benefit from this new level of comfort on further routes: Shanghai (from mid-March), São Paulo and Miami (in stages from late March, Miami partly on A330-300), Tokyo (from late April), Bangkok (in stages from June), Cairo (from July) and Tel Aviv (from late July). All 15 aircraft of this type will be equipped with the new SWISS Business by mid-2011.

FREQUENCY INCREASE FOR CAMEROON

With the addition of a fourth flight on Saturdays as of the new summer timetable, Douala and Yaoundé will be served four times weekly (-2-4-6-7), in codeshare with Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines (SN). SWISS will continue to codeshare with SN flights to Douala (1/3/6) and Yaoundé (2/5), thus offering daily services to/from Cameroon.