Where is ZRH in terms of traffic recovered? I know it's not included in a lot of EU reports. In JAN24 ZRH was at 92%, in FEB24 at 99%. They expect to be at or above 2019 levels in 2025. Some business routes are still below pre-Covid levels, such as Paris, London, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Leisure d...
Jump to postSome route news from ZRH: Egyptair will start to operate to Zurich again. From 8 July, the airline will fly three times per week Cairo-Zurich-Cairo using A320neo aircraft. Egyptair hasn't operated to Zurich for over 20 years. MS773 CAI1035 – 1355ZRH 32N 136 MS774 ZRH1455 – 1945CAI 32N 136 https://ww...
Jump to postThe reason for the extension of the 28 is evening arrivals of widebodies. The extension of the 32 is to facilitate longhaul departures at certain times, instead of using 34. The ideal setup in ZRH is using both 16 (departure) and 14 (landing), or (either 14 or 32, combined with 28). This allows mor...
Jump to postSorry for the multi-post, but just catching up on some 2024 news. Below are the final passenger statistics for both Zurich and Geneva airport. BSL to follow, but will close at around 8.1 million (+14.7% vs. 2022). ZRH Key traffic figures December 2023 In December 2023, 2,194,072 passengers passed th...
Jump to postThe new E195 for Helvetic will most likely be four ex-Azul frames, as this airline has returned exactly four aircraft to lessor Azzorra in past months: PR-AXA PR-AXB PR-AYN PR-AYU I would presume that 2L got some favorable rates on these frames, which makes this move sensible and would also allow th...
Jump to postThen, big news dropped by Helvetic today. The airline will add four E195 aircraft for the Summer 2024 season. Aircraft will be configured with 122 seats. The 2L fleet will grow to 22 aircraft. The additional aircraft will be deployed on the existing network - so presumably mostly for LX. Would that...
Jump to postSome news to begin the year: Strong rumours that Air India will start services from DEL to ZRH starting in March. Nothing official yet. In another forum, a user even posted flight times: AI 0151 I Delhi – Zürich I Dep 14:10 Arr 19:15 AI 0152 I Zürich – Delhi I Dep 20:50 Arr 8:05 +1 Let‘s see if this...
Jump to postThis is the most up-to-date list of the paint schemes and status for each aircraft in the LH Group:
https://sites.google.com/view/europeana ... /dlh/lhdlh
Of note from EAF is also that WK will get an additional three A320s, two from LX and one from LH (all newer build frames). Interesting that they see so much additional leisure potential out of ZRH, given that they have already transferred quite a bit of destinations from LX to WK in past years (BIO,...
Jump to postZRH Zurich airport made the historic mistake in the 1950s to build runways that are no parallel but facing away from each other (Rwy 14 and Rwy 16). Nowadays, all the land required to make them parallel is inhabited. Capacity of aircraft movements is quite limited due to the fact that the runways ar...
Jump to postWhile closely following the ITA investment I was wondering why LX is not serving LIN instead of 4x daily MXP? I believe this is due to a lack of slots. This might change now with the takeover of ITA. LX served LIN briefly with a 1x daily flight some years ago, but the slot later went over again to ...
Jump to postWhile closely following the ITA investment I was wondering why LX is not serving LIN instead of 4x daily MXP? Swiss these days is a low cost airline (albeit an expensive one), so Linate is too expensive to fly into. I remember the good old days when Swissair flew their freshly baked A310's into Lin...
Jump to postWhile closely following the ITA investment I was wondering why LX is not serving LIN instead of 4x daily MXP? I believe this is due to a lack of slots. This might change now with the takeover of ITA. LX served LIN briefly with a 1x daily flight some years ago, but the slot later went over again to ...
Jump to postIs Ryanair blocked from serving GVA and ZRH by the government? It wouldn't be surprising by any means. At ZRH, Swiss faces very little low cost competition. With the exception of easyJet and Vueling flying a few routes at minimum from ZRH, Swiss isn't really impacted much by them. Even now, Swiss i...
Jump to postOn an LX-operated WK flight, the business class booked under the LX codeshare has a cabin configuration where no seats are blocked so 2+3 on the A220 and 3+3 on the A320. I suppose not many people buy that business class but in my partner's case it came with the intercontinental business class tick...
Jump to postIn the whole fleet shuffle at LX, one thing I don‘t understand is why they did not bring back earlier the remaining A320s still sitting in Amman. They still have HB-IJN, -IJO, -IJR sitting there in long-term storage. They will not enter the fleet until July/August/September. Then again, personnel is...
Jump to postSwiss took delivery of a brand new A321neo on Tuesday of this week. Registered HB-JPC, msn 10298. Next up for delivery will be HB-JPD, msn 11406 with scheduled delivery out of Finkenwerder in July 2023. Yesterday, CHair received its third A320 aircraft, delivered from Sofia. MSN 4391, registered HB-...
Jump to postThe Lufthansa group in Finnish Lapland/northern Finland next winter season: Lufthansa offer FRA-IVL, FRA-KAO and MUC-KTT typically 1x weekly. Eurowings offer BER-RVN and DUS-RVN 1-3x weekly. In Finnish: https://www.lentoposti.fi/uutiset/eurowings_lent_talviaikataulukaudella_d_sseldorfista_ja_berlii...
Jump to postHelvetic Airways has just announced on LinkedIn that they will lease two additional E190s to join operations in late May and in late June. This will bring the 2L fleet to 18 frames. Most likely the move comes in connection with the P&W fiasco for Swiss and others… Edit: the two additional aircra...
Jump to postAny chance LX will resume GVA-BCN? Seems unlikely, the route was discontinued before covid, even though it was one of the flagship/longstanding routes LX operated ex-GVA (it had operated since the SR days). At one point LX was at 3x daily on the route. Slowly EZS built up its frequencies (including...
Jump to postIn an interview at Handelszeitung (Swiss-German weekly business magazine), CEO of Edelweiss Dirk Bauer gave an answer to the question about Edelweiss‘ fleet. He is optimistic that the medium-haul fleet will see replacement by 2027/28. He states that WK is in talks with LH HQ about getting some plane...
Jump to postItalians make up a large (if not largest) diaspora in Switzerland + very popular leisure destination. Yes there is quite a bit of VFR and leisure traffic mainly to the south of the peninsula. However, the main resaon is to feed their LX hub at ZRH. I'm convinced that for example ZRH/MXP doesn't war...
Jump to posteasyJet will (re-)open some routes from Switzerland next Summer. GVA-Asturias 2 weekly (destination never served from Switzerland before) It's been served before, the route was originally launched in 2009. You're also missing DL beginning JFK-GVA, ex-GVA LX taking over GVA-VIE from OS, launching/re...
Jump to postHere are the 2022 passenger figures from the two main Swiss airports ZRH Passengers: 22'561'132, +120% vs. 2021, -28% vs. 2019 Movements: 216'585, +63% vs. 2021, -21% vs. 2019 GVA Passengers: 14'085'282, +137.8% vs. 2021, -21.4% vs. 2019 Movements: 163'168, +64% vs. 2021, -12% vs. 2019 Some positive...
Jump to postChair has actually introduced the second A320 last week. It is registered HB-JOP, cn 3374 ex Mexicana and ex Interjet. According to the EAF Fleet Site https://sites.google.com/view/europeanairlinefleets/others there should be another A320 joining the fleet, ex Saudia cn4391. EAF also at one time lis...
Jump to postHow come they are leasing so many planes? Where is this extra demand coming from or are they experiencing a plane/crew shortage? Are some of the LX planes stored? Most likely due to crew shortage at LX, but maybe even at WK and 2L, which is extensively flying for LX right now (about 10-11 planes of...
Jump to postSeems Swiss will wet lease Air Baltic aircraft for the winter schedule. Sorry no source (only some German stuff). They will lease 6 A220 from Air Baltic. https://twitter.com/ByERussell/status/1555578954081345537?s=20&t=ul_79-kFH5mEslv2pUO5cQ How come they are leasing so many planes? Where is th...
Jump to postHow would 1 less A343 affect the route network if all 5 333s would come back. Would one of the LX routes like Nairobi be transferred over to WK. I feel like they will wait until 2024 to give away the a343 one their replacements comes Nairobi has been discontinued by LX. WK flies a triangular routin...
Jump to postICN-ZRH might not be a big market to start with. If I remember well, KE had flights to Zurich via ZAG. Don't know if they are back in ZRH this year but they will have some charter flights to ZAG later this summer. I guess whatever market there is/was is served with one stop options. Back in 2017 wh...
Jump to postICN-ZRH might not be a big market to start with. If I remember well, KE had flights to Zurich via ZAG. Don't know if they are back in ZRH this year but they will have some charter flights to ZAG later this summer. I guess whatever market there is/was is served with one stop options. Back in 2017 wh...
Jump to postSo I heard that all 5 of the A330s will return to regular service next year. Currently Beijing, Nairobi, Osaka and Washington are not being served. Do we think these routes will return when the A330s come back or will Swiss launch new destinations instead? I'm not so sure PEK will return for some t...
Jump to postEthiopian have had traffic rights between Italy and other countries in Europe in the last 20 years. Possibly due to the historic colonial link Do you have a full list? Is MXP-ZRH confirmed 5th freedom? MXP-ZHR is not a 5th freedom flight. Maybe ET would be wet leasing the plane in ZRH? Wouldn't be ...
Jump to postEthiopian Airlines will start service to Zurich from 31 October 2022. The flight will be offered 3x weekly as a tag-on from their MXP flights. Aircraft operating is the B787-9. The aircraft will be sitting on the ground in ZRH all day. Addis Ababa – Milan Malpensa – Zurich eff 31OCT22 3 weekly 777-2...
Jump to postI would argue that for Cayman it is probably different. The business traffic between Caymanian companies and sister firms in HKG and SIN is hardly insignificant, and a huge portion of the population is originally from the Asia Pacific region so VFR traffic would be a key segment as well. It will be...
Jump to postThis year though, Edelweiss has coupled YVR flights with YYC, therefore decreasing available capacity to YVR slightly. Huh? From what I've seen online, YVR and YYC have each their own flight WK10 and WK14 respectively. But I did notice that Edelweiss is down to four long-haul aircraft, with a rathe...
Jump to postBA now has their A380 flying to YVR, and Edelweiss is back with their A340 Perhaps BA already flew théier A380 then. WK is flying 3x tImes weekly to YVR + 5x weekly AC882/883, quite some traffic with ZRH. Were there any flights back in the days of Swissair & Balair? Western Canada is an extreme...
Jump to postSR380 wrote:Did I miss something or did LX ordered 5 a350s?
How do you guys see the chances of DL restarting ATL-ZRH in Summer 23? This route used to be a long-standing route for decades before being gradually decreased to summer seasonal and then cut altogether a few years back. DL still serves ZRH/Switzerland through JFK but the connection possibilities th...
Jump to postAs a Swiss citizen, I am deeply ashamed of this event. Anyway: I think the current official version of the media, which speaks of a power failure, is almost impossible. The statement has now also been rewritten and it`s currently being talked about network problems... But this claim must also be qu...
Jump to postWhat is the reason for the cancelation of flight WK66 today? That was really a very unplesant surprise when I got to the airport. Especially as I was reboked onto EK and I hate to fly with that airline, but I especially hate to use their hub DXB! Probably because one of WK's A343 was struck by ligh...
Jump to postThere are multiple reasons for that: 1. Bern is relatively small if you take the whole catchment area into account, especially compared to Zürich, Geneva and Basel-Mulhouse. The greater Bern area hardly hits 500'000 people while Zürich (including all the eastern areas) hits over 2M and Geneva and B...
Jump to postLH's new 2x daily MUC-BLL is off to a good start! https://check-in.dk/succesfuld-start-med-udsolgte-fly/ The article hints at the Lufthansa Group looking at two more German destinations from West Denmark. Could it be Eurowings BLL-BER/DUS? Pure speculation, of course. Before the pandemic, LX had st...
Jump to postSome route news from Bern airport, where activities are ramping up again after the demise of Skywork. The following destinations will be served in Summer season 2021: - PMI with Helvetic E290/295 2x weekly - HER with Helvetic E290/295 2x weekly - RHO with 2L 1x weekly - KGS with 2L 1x weekly - AYT w...
Jump to postSome ZRH route news: - easyJet will be launching flights to BCN, FAO and BDS (in W-pattern with BCN-based aircraft). Flights will start 20 July and run until end of October - Condor will operate a total 23 weekly flights starting 3 July to PMI, IBZ, LPA, TFS, HER, KGS, RHO, LCA, OLB. The airline wil...
Jump to postHelvetic Airways has announced to base two aircraft in BSL as per July. Initial routes are to Santorin, Jerez, Larnaca and Pristina. Interesting move-however it seems this is only the weekend schedule. I wonder what exactly is the plan for the rest of the week (flying for EW, LH, OS, SN or even LX?...
Jump to postWhat the hell is going on in Oporto?! I found 3(!!!) flights in July on Fridays from ZRH to OPO: LX2060 B777 LX2064 A321 LX2068 A320 On Thursday are 4 flights scheduled (3xLX/1xTP), albeit with smaller A320 family... Huge Portuguese community in Switzerland (albeit more to the West). At the end of ...
Jump to postChair will be terminating three destinations from Zurich: Pristina, Ohrid and Skopje. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/291818/chair-airlines-s20-operations-as-of-12jun20/ Seems very odd that they would terminate these three very VFR-heavy routes from ZRH. In fact, Chair is still pa...
Jump to postAnyone knows what‘s going on at BRN? Some kind of conference in town? Yesrerday I saw multiple bombardier type business jets and one 73G BBJ taking off and landing and just now a 738 BBJ landed at BRN. It‘s mostly ski tourism that drives the business aviation surge at BRN during the months December...
Jump to postThis is not the government that has voted in favor of the tax but rather a sub-commission of one of the chambers of parliament. The main discussion will be held in the main parliamentary chamber within the next couple of weeks. The main issue here is that the general parliamentary elections are comi...
Jump to postSXF-VIE has also been dropped as of Winter 19/20 resulting in another duplicate route being ceased.
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