Swiss

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Swiss International Air Lines
IATA code :	LX
ICAO code :	SWR
Call sign :	SWISS
Founding:	2002
Seat:	Basel , Switzerland
Turnstile :	Zurich Geneva
Home airport :	Zurich
Company form:	Corporation
IATA prefix code :	724
Management:	Reto Francioni ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) Thomas Klühr (Chairman of the Management Board) Markus Binkert (CFO)
Number of employees:	9563 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Sales:	5.33 billion CHF (2019)
Passenger volume:	▲ 18.78 million (2019)
Alliance :	Star Alliance
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles & More
Fleet size:	90 (+24 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.swiss.com

Swiss International Air Lines , with SWISS on the outside , is the national airline of Switzerland , with its headquarters and hub at Zurich Airport (legal seat in Basel ). It is part of the Lufthansa Group and a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance .

history

Swiss headquarters at Basel-Mulhouse Airport

Swiss aircraft in Zurich

Swiss House (ス イ ス ハ ウ スSuisu Hausu ), representation in Tokyo

Several Swiss machines on their home base in Zurich

founding

As a result of the insolvency of Swissair , the then national Swiss airline, in October 2001, Crossair was renamed Swiss International Air Lines with an amendment to the Articles of Association on May 13, 2002 .

In the period between the Swissair grounding on October 2, 2001 and the start of Swiss on March 1, 2002, Swissair was supported by the Swiss government with the necessary liquid funds to maintain flight operations and enable Swiss to be founded. The company owned by Tyler Brûlé carried out the development and introduction of the “Swiss” brand .

The starting point for Swiss company law was the Basel regional airline Crossair, whose structures were used with the financial support of the Swiss Confederation, some cantons and the two big banks UBS and Credit Suisse to set up a new, internationally active Swiss scheduled airline. Crossair changed its name to Swiss and took over 26 long- and short-haul aircraft from the former Swissair, as well as a large part of their flight connections. The project was called “Phoenix +”.

In addition to scheduled flights, Swiss also operated charter flights to European and North African holiday destinations. Up to and including the 2004 summer flight schedule , the charter flights were operated under the Swiss Sun brand . Swiss has its Airbus fleet serviced by SR Technics Switzerland.

Basel hub

On May 31, 2015, Swiss took flight LX486 for the last time from Basel-Mulhouse Airport to London City. Swiss stopped flight operations from Basel and thus gave up its third hub besides Zurich and Geneva. Most recently, in addition to London, Hamburg, Prague, Barcelona and Mallorca were also served. Operations had never been profitable for Swiss at the airport, which was developing into a low-cost carrier market.

Takeover by Lufthansa

After earlier takeover bids by Lufthansa on the part of the Swiss owners failed, Swiss agreed in autumn 2003 with Oneworld under the leadership of British Airways on an early membership. At the beginning of June 2004, however, the accession negotiations were broken off without result.

For 2003 Swiss posted a loss of 687 million Swiss francs (previous year 980 million) on sales of 4.126 billion (previous year 4.395 billion) francs. For 2004, Swiss had originally forecast a balanced result, but announced another annual loss in June 2004, which was justified by high fuel costs .

Meanwhile, the management levels of Swiss and Lufthansa conducted secret negotiations for months about a takeover. On March 22, 2005, the Lufthansa Group reached an agreement with the major Swiss shareholders, including Credit Suisse, UBS, the Swiss Confederation and the Canton of Zurich . As a result, a gradual takeover of Swiss by the Lufthansa Group, the continued existence of the Swiss brand and the maintenance of the Zurich hub next to the Lufthansa hubs in Frankfurt am Main and Munich were agreed for a purchase price of 310 million euros .

In February 2005, the new Swiss CEO appointed in April 2004, the German Christoph Franz , reported a net loss of 140 million francs. The consolidated operating income in the 2005 financial year rose to 3.732 billion Swiss francs (previous year: 3.642 billion). The operating result ( EBIT ) before restructuring costs improved to CHF 14 million (previous year: CHF 122 million). Currency-related value adjustments of 65 million francs on liabilities in US dollars and restructuring costs of 41 million francs resulted in a net loss that rose significantly year-on-year from 140 to 178 million francs.

On June 2, 2005, the Star Alliance , an aviation alliance founded by Lufthansa, United Airlines and other airlines, decided to join Swiss in 2006. It joined on April 1, 2006. In the 2006 financial year, Swiss achieved an increase of 263 million Swiss francs a turnover of 4.153 billion francs for the first time an annual profit.

Since autumn 2005, all flight connections between Germany and Switzerland have been operated by Lufthansa and Swiss in code sharing and from the same terminals. The winter timetable 2005 also occurred cooperation agreements with Austrian Airlines , TAP Portugal , United Airlines and Air Canada in preparation for the accession of the Swiss into the Star Alliance in force.

In October 2005, the Swiss management announced that the regional fleet would be outsourced to the new company Swiss European Air Lines with an operating license for the 2005 winter flight schedule.

Development since 2007

On June 21, 2007, Deutsche Lufthansa AG announced the complete takeover of Swiss on July 1, 2007. At this point in time, Lufthansa owned 100 percent of the shares in the Swiss company. Previously, for legal reasons, only 49 percent of Swiss belonged to Lufthansa until landing rights were renegotiated with many non-European countries. The remaining 51 percent stayed with the Swiss Almea Foundation, which was set up specifically for this purpose . In this ratio (51:49), Almea and Lufthansa were the owners of AirTrust AG , which in turn was the sole owner of Swiss. Thus, Swiss was considered a Swiss company and was able to retain the existing traffic rights in countries outside the European Union , which have always been regulated internationally and not sold to other countries. The delisting of the Swiss share on the Swiss stock exchange took place on January 27, 2006.

On February 8, 2008, the takeover of Edelweiss Air by Swiss was announced, which changed hands as part of a strategic partnership between the previous owner Kuoni and Swiss. The charter company will continue to operate with its own management, its own fleet and its own crew. The “Edelweiss” brand will be retained.

On July 18, 2008, Swiss announced the takeover of Servair Private Charter AG, which is active in business aviation. It will be continued under the name Swiss Private Aviation and with the previous management and employees. With the takeover, Swiss created a platform for the operation of the Lufthansa Private Jet Fleet (LPJ), which was founded in 2007 by Lufthansa in cooperation with NetJets and was temporarily operated by Swiss European Air Lines until then. However, the project was unsuccessful and bankruptcy was declared in 2011 and Lufthansa Private Jet was relocated back to Lufthansa Passage.

In 2008, Swiss generated sales of CHF 5.267 billion (2007: CHF 4.895 billion) and an operating profit of CHF 507 million (2007: CHF 542 million). The workforce at the end of 2008 was 7,337 employees or 6,026 full-time positions (end of 2007: 7,277 employees or 6,022 full-time positions).

In 2009, Swiss was named “Best Airline in Europe” on short and long-haul routes from among 160 airlines evaluated. More than 15.4 million passengers from 95 nations took part in the survey carried out by the British consultancy Skytrax .

Swiss logo used until October 2011

In 2010, Swiss carried 14.1 million passengers (2009: 13.8 million; 2008: 13.5 million; 2007: 12.2 million) - with an average seat load factor for the entire route network of 82.3 percent - and is thus the largest airline in Switzerland.

In August 2011 Swiss published their new logo, which is very similar to that of Swissair. The SWISS lettering is complemented by a tail fin with a Swiss cross. This logo has replaced the previous logo, the Swiss Cube , since October . A new motto was also announced. Our sign is a promise , to emphasize Swiss values. The rebranding was carried out by the Swiss design agency Nose AG .

In July 2014, Eurowings , a Lufthansa subsidiary, announced the establishment of a base at Basel Airport for the next year. To do this, Swiss is withdrawing from Basel-Mulhouse and deploying its staff on other routes and locations. The company headquarters at the same airport is not affected by this change.

During the COVID-19 pandemic , regular flight operations were suspended from March 2020 and only one fuselage fleet was operated. 14 aircraft were parked at the Dübendorf military airfield in order to avoid being parked abroad, which would have complicated the maintenance of the parked aircraft, which is why 5 Edelweiss aircraft and 4 Helvetic Embraer jets were also there. At least one long-haul aircraft was also kept ready for repatriation flights; a total of 30 flights had been carried out on behalf of the federal government by Easter to bring Swiss people back from abroad. In addition, Swiss aircraft were used for pure cargo flights for the first time. In May 2020, Swiss only offered 3 percent of its original offer.

Destinations

Countries served by Swiss (March 2019)

Airbus A220-100 from Swiss

Airbus A220-300 of Swiss in special livery

The Zurich airport is the hub of the Swiss; this is where most of the flights are handled. The Swiss route network comprises (as of June 2018) 105 destinations (80 European and 25 intercontinental) in 49 countries. On long-haul routes in North America, the destinations Boston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as Montreal are served, while New York is served from Zurich and Geneva. In South America only São Paulo is served directly by Swiss. In Asia, Swiss serves the cities of Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Osaka, Dubai, Muscat, Delhi and Mumbai. In Africa, Swiss flies to Dar es Salaam with a stopover in Nairobi, Cairo and Johannesburg.

In 2018, Swiss launched a number of new short and medium-haul connections to France, Greece, Croatia, Finland, Israel and the Ukraine.

fleet

Airbus A319-100 of the Swiss

Airbus A320-200 from Swiss

Airbus A321-200 from Swiss

Airbus A330-300 of Swiss

Swiss Airbus A340-300 in older livery

Swiss Boeing 777-300ER in special livery

Current fleet

As of July 2020, the Swiss fleet consists of 90 aircraft with an average age of 9.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Economy )	Average age (As of April 2020)
Airbus A220-100	9		A220-100 first delivery on June 29, 2016; European flights since July 2016	125 (- / var. / Var.)	3.1 years
Airbus A220-300	20th	1		145 (- / var. / Var.)	2.1 years
Airbus A320-200	19th		1 with sharklets (HB-JLT); will be reduced to approx. 10 Airbus of the A320 family in CEO design	180 (- / var. / Var.)	19.6 years
Airbus A320neo	2	15th	Delivery by 2025	180	0.2 years
Airbus A321-100	6th		will be reduced to approx. 10 Airbus of the A320 family in CEO design	219 (- / var. / Var.)	23.3 years
Airbus A321-200	3		2 with sharklets; will be reduced to approx. 10 Airbus of the A320 family in CEO design	219 (- / 48/171)	6.8 years
Airbus A321neo		8th	Delivery by 2025; is possibly in Airbus A321neoLR changed	220
Airbus A330-300	14th			236 (8/45/183)	9.6 years
Airbus A340-300	5		Retirement from 2025	223 (8/47/168)	16.5 years
Boeing 777-300ER	12		first delivery on January 29, 2016	340 (8/62/270)	2.9 years
total	90	24			9.6 years

Wet lease
In addition to its own fleet, aircraft from other airlines are wet leased for Swiss. Aircraft and the flying personnel are provided by the partner airline. As of December 2019, ten Embraer 190s from Helvetic Airways are in use, which fly on less busy Swiss flights and routes within Europe. Until April 2018, aircraft from Swiss Global Air Lines were also in use, which were transferred to the Swiss fleet after their dissolution. In addition, Adria Airways operated the route from Zurich to Lugano until October 2019 , which was discontinued after the airline was dissolved.

Changes to the fleet

In mid-November and early December 2006, a total of two Airbus A330-200s (in two-class configuration) from Lufthansa were transferred to the Swiss fleet, replacing an Airbus A300 that was rented for a short time . An additional A320 had been in service for medium-haul traffic since mid-December 2006, followed by two older A321s from Turkish Airlines and two A320s in spring 2007 . For the 2008 summer flight schedule, three Air Canada and Austrian Airlines A340-300s were integrated. Three more A340-300s were taken over by Air Canada in 2008, replacing the two A330-200s with a two-class configuration.

The parent company Lufthansa ordered nine new Airbus A330-300s on September 19, 2007 to replace the smaller A330-200 aircraft that were delivered from 2009. In addition, four A320s were procured (leasing), two of which were put into operation in summer 2008 and one each in 2011 and 2012.

On December 14, 2008 Lufthansa announced that it would hand over two Airbus A330-300s from its own order to Swiss. As a result, the number of A330-300s ordered by Swiss rose from nine to eleven.

With the takeover of Edelweiss Air by Swiss, three A320 aircraft were transferred to Swiss ownership and leased to Edelweiss on a long-term basis.

On September 22, 2010 Lufthansa ordered five Airbus A330-300s, two A321s and two A320s for Swiss. The first A330-300 was handed over on January 11, 2012, and the remaining four will follow by 2014.

On March 14, 2013 Swiss ordered six Boeing 777-300ERs to replace six older Airbus A340s on routes to North and South America as well as to Southeast Asia and on seasonal routes. In March 2015, the order was increased by a further three Boeing 777s to a total of nine. At the end of October 2016, the order was changed again, so that in addition to the ones already ordered (and delivered), another Boeing 777 was added, making the fleet a total of ten units. This left five A340s in the fleet.

The last of a total of 20 Avro RJ100s in service since 2002 was flown to Prestwick on August 22, 2017, after it had carried out its last commercial scheduled flight on August 14. The RJ100 had been replaced by the newer A220-100 and A220-300 since the end of 2016. After the completion of this fleet renewal, Swiss plans to procure new Airbus A320Neo / A321Neo. At the end of September 2018, ten options were converted into orders. The time of the flotation was targeted in 2023.

Previously deployed aircraft

Aircraft type	number	Duration
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	12	2002-2003
McDonnell Douglas MD-11	11	2002-2004
Saab 2000	18th	2002-2005
Embraer-ERJ-145	11	2005-2006
Avro RJ85	4th	2005-2007
Avro RJ100	20th	2002-2017
Airbus A330-223	18th	2002-2011
Airbus A319-100	8th	2002-2020

Airbus A330-223

A total of 18 of the A330-223 were in Swiss stock over the entire period of use. With the transfer of the Swissair fleet to Swiss on March 31, 2002, 16 units of this type came to Swiss, whereby only 13 were used for flight operations in accordance with the “Phönix +” founding project. The remaining three were sold to Lufthansa in autumn 2002.

Due to the financial situation, the fleet was reduced at the end of 2003, with four A330s being sold. The A330 fleet remained at nine until two aircraft were taken over from Lufthansa in the fourth quarter of 2006.

It was decided in 2007 to replace the A330-223 with the somewhat larger and more modern A330-343. With the delivery of the new aircraft type from April 2009, the decommissioning of the A330-223 began in mid-2009. The last four copies were retired in mid-2011. Two aircraft were sold to Air Berlin and two more were used as dry leases by sister company Brussels Airlines before they were sold to it in October 2011 and March 2012, respectively.

service

The service at Swiss is divided into up to three transport classes: On the short and medium-haul routes, the cabin is divided into Economy Class and Business Class. The economy and business class seats are separated from each other by a curtain and differ in that the middle seat in a row of three or the neighboring seat in a row of two is kept free. There can also be First Class on intercontinental connections. Both Business Class and First Class seats can be adjusted to form a bed. Business class customers and frequent flyers with Frequent Traveler status from Miles & More have access to the business lounges of Swiss, Lufthansa and other Miles & More partners at various airports. First class customers and frequent flyers with the HON status of Miles & More have access to the first class lounges at various airports.

Frequent flyer program

The former Swiss frequent flyer program “Swiss Travel Club” (formerly Qualiflyer from Swissair) was transferred to Lufthansa's Miles & More program on April 1, 2006 , which Austrian also joined.

There were contractual changes for members of the highest class ("Swiss Circle"). Originally, 200,000 miles were necessary for admission, 150,000 of them in the first year of membership (admission was only made on the recommendation of Swiss management). In the Lufthansa frequent flyer program, however, 600,000 miles are required in two years for the comparable class.

Lounges

In addition to the Business Class and Senator Lounges, Swiss also operates a First Class Lounge at the Zurich and Geneva airports. In Zurich there is also an arrival lounge that is available to arriving passengers. Passengers of SWISS First, First Class Lufthansa and HON Circle members of the Miles & More program have access to the First Class Lounges. Passengers with Miles & More Senator or Star Alliance Gold status also have access to the Senator Lounges. The Business Class Lounges may be used by business class passengers from Swiss, Lufthansa and Star Alliance partners as well as passengers with Frequent Traveler Miles & More status.

In addition, Swiss operates its own lounges at the airports of New York ( John F. Kennedy ) and Chicago as well as at Moscow's Domodedovo airport .

Swiss WorldCargo

The Swiss WorldCargo logo

Swiss WorldCargo is the cargo division of Swiss. It was established on April 1, 2002 and is headquartered in the main Swiss building at Zurich Airport.

As a provider of airport-to-airport airfreight services , it specializes in the transport of high-quality goods and freight requiring intensive care. The Swiss WorldCargo route network includes more than 150 destinations in over 80 countries, most of them in Europe. The network is supplemented by truck connections.

In 2010, the cargo share of Swiss sales was around 11.5 percent, which corresponds to around 600 million Swiss francs with group sales of 5.267 billion Swiss francs. The volume-based freight load factor (intercontinental) was 78 percent.

Swiss does not own pure cargo planes. However, in the past, Boeing 747 cargo planes from Evergreen International Airlines were chartered on flights to New York when there were larger volumes of cargo .

Subsidiaries

The following companies are part of the Swiss Group:

• Swiss AviationSoftware AG
• Swiss WorldCargo
• Lufthansa Aviation Training Switzerland (LAT CH)

former

• Crossair Europe (until 2005)
• Swiss PrivateAviation AG (until 2010)
• Swiss AviationTraining AG
• Swiss Global Air Lines (until 2018): In order to standardize the pilot employment contracts, it was decided at the end of 2017 to dissolve Swiss Global Air Lines, which had mainly operated wet lease flights for Swiss.

Incidents

• On July 10, 2002, the pilots of a Saab 2000 (HB-IZY) on flight LX 850 from Basel to Hamburg had to move to Berlin-Tegel Airport due to bad weather conditions . Due to a lack of fuel, the crew asked for priority, but decided to land on the partially closed Werneuchen airfield . After touching down, the aircraft rolled over a 1 m high embankment, which broke off all three landing gear legs. The machine came to a stop lying on its fuselage with a burning engine; there was a total write-off.

criticism

The program Kassensturz of the Swiss radio and television (SRF) criticized the so-called no-show rule of the airline in the program of March 2, 2017 . The rule states that passengers who do not take a segment of a flight can lose their right to the following flight segments. According to several Swiss law professors, this rule is illegal. The clause does not apply to passengers residing in Austria, protected by a supreme court ban on the no-show rule in Austria. The Consumer Protection Foundation worked on an out-of-court settlement with the airline in 2017.

On March 18, 2020, Swiss boss Thomas Klühr made it indirectly clear to the Federal Council to the SonntagsBlick that grounding could not be ruled out without financial help from the Swiss state . Thereupon there was a lot of criticism, especially because Switzerland had already made several billion francs loose at the Swissair grounding. The opponents also say that Swiss is a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group and no longer has any "Swissness" at all.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Swiss  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Swiss International Airlines  - Travel Guide

 Wikinews: Swiss  - in the news

• Data about the airline Swiss in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
• SWISS website
• Name of the aircraft of Swiss International Air Lines
• Current and former fleet

literature

• Werner Vogt: Swiss. The airline of Switzerland . With a guest contribution by Jürgen Dunsch. 1st edition. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-03810-313-4 (215 pages).

Individual evidence

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