Despite passenger traffic growing by three-quarters between 2005 and 2019, few of Europe’s busier airports remain as affected by the pandemic as Zurich. It welcomed 22.6 million passengers last year, down by 28% versus 2019 and the lowest level (excluding 2020/2021) since 2009, according to the airport’s own figures. Zurich’s recovery has not been helped […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Self-described as Switzerland’s leading holiday airline, you would think that Edelweiss is the nation’s second-biggest carrier by seat capacity after SWISS. But that is not the case, easyJet is. However, while easyJet serves Geneva, Basel and Zurich, Edelweiss focuses only on Zurich. The airline has 1.3 million departing seats from the airport this summer – […]
February 2, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
A year later than originally planned, Edelweiss (the leisure subsidiary of SWISS) began weekly service between Zurich and Newquay in the south-west of the UK. Flights will operate every Sunday between 3 July and 18 September, a total of just 18 flights. The carrier will utilise its 174-seat A320s on the 1,045-kilometre route. Zurich increases […]
July 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Edelweiss Air has begun a new long-haul service from its home base in Zurich to Guanacaste in Costa Rica on Sunday 28 November. The 9,460-kilometre route will be flown weekly using the airline’s A340-300 fleet. The carrier, the leisure subsidiary of national carrier SWISS, has four of the long-haul aircraft in its fleet. The inaugural […]
November 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Edelweiss, the leisure-focussed subsidiary of SWISS, launched a 2-weekly service from Zurich to Muscat in Oman on Tuesday 2 November. The airline will operate its A340-300s on the 5,110-kilometre route. Oman Air has connected the two airports in the past, including last summer, having started service in December 2011. The Swiss carrier also recently added […]
November 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +
SWISS subsidiary Edelweiss (IATA code WK) began a new service involving two destinations in Tanzania on Friday 8 October with the introduction of service from Zurich to Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar, operated as a triangle route. The inaugural service (flight number WK 76 operated by an Airbus A340-300, registration HB-JMG) departed Zurich at 23:10 and touched […]
October 19, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Germany’s Luthansa Group already has a wholly-owned, lower-cost subsidiary, Eurowings (IATA code EW). It even used the airline prior to the pandemic to launch long-haul services from Frankfurt. Cirium Data and Analytics shows that in late October 2019, Eurowings was offering flights from Frankfurt to Barbados, Las Vegas, Mauritius and Windhoek in Namibia. So why […]
July 29, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America, Top Story