Seven years after parent airline Lufthansa, SWISS is set to introduce Premium Economy seats on its fleet from the final quarter of this year. The new class was unveiled on June 28 and puts SWISS among the airlines that want…
UPDATED STORY JUNE 25 – Lufthansa gets a dream deal for 787s with Boeing. It has bought five 787-9s that have been built for another customer but were canceled last year. While previously thought to have been for Norwegian, the…
Helvetic Airways is looking beyond the horizon for new destinations, now that it will have the Embraer E195-E2 in the fleet. The Swiss airline is seeing new options to fully exploit the 4.815-kilometer range of the largest version of the…
In over a month’s time, on July 24, a new airline within Lufthansa Group will commence operations: Eurowings Discover. While using the same and familiar Eurowings-name, Discover will offer a totally different concept and targets a different market. Eurowings Discover…
SWISS International Air Lines is forced to make deeper cuts in its organization and fleet, it announced on May 6. It confirms that the state of Europe’s airlines is still far from stable. Drastic actions are unavoidable as the national…
Europe has been one of the continents where the pandemic has a prolonged effect on air travel. Whereas there has been a rebound in domestic travel in the US, Europe is dominated by continued restrictions as various countries suffer from…