2. Swiss International Air Lines: Overview
Previously Swiss Air Lines Ltd (Swiss for short).
Switzerland’s flag carrier airline; operates scheduled
services in Europe and to North America, South
America, Africa, and Asia.
Its home base is Zurich (Zürich) Airport (ZRH).
Founded in 2002 after Swissair, Switzerland’s former flag
carrier, went bankrupt.
Subsidiary airline of the German airline Lufthansa (with
which Swiss International Air Lines is a Star Alliance
member).
Its headquarters are at EuroAirport Basel-MulhouseFreiburg (one of its two focus cities, with Geneva
International Airport) near Basel, Switzerland; also has
an office at Zurich Airport in Kloten, Switzerland.
Its registered office is in Basel.
Uses the IATA Code LX that it took over from the Swiss
regional airline Crossair (SR was Swissair’s code).
Its ICAO code is SWR, which it took over from Swissair
(Crossair’s ICAO code was CRX) so as to maintain
international traffic rights.
3. Swiss International Air Lines: Hubs and Subsidiaries
Hubs:
Zurich Airport
Subsidiaries:
Edelweiss Air
Swiss AviationSoftware
Swiss Aviation Training
Swiss European Air Lines
Swiss PrivateAction
Swiss WorldCargo
4. Swiss International Air Lines: Head office
Headquartered at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
near Basel, Switzerland.
A French-Swiss binational airport, EuroAirport is
physically in France with direct access to Switzerland.
The Swiss head office, located in the Swiss sector of the
airport, is only accessible via Switzerland.
The current Swiss International Air Lines head office was
once the head office of Crossair.
In 2002, when Swiss International Air Lines was
founded, the name Crossair was replaced with Swiss
International Air Lines on the main office building.
Since 2004, the Basel area offices had almost 1,000
employees, whereas the Zurich area offices had roughly
850 employees.
Approximately 1,400-1,500 worked at the Basel office
when Swiss began as a company.
5. Swiss International Air Lines : Codeshare agreements
Swiss International has codeshare agreements
with the following airlines:
Adria Airways
Air Canada
Air France
Air Malta
Austrian Airlines
Brussels Airlines
Croatia Airlines
Darwin Airline
Edelweiss Air
Edelweiss Air
EgyptAir
El Al
Helvetic Airways
Lufthansa
LOT Polish Airlines
Scandinavian Airlines
Singapore Airlines
South African Airways
TAM Airlines
TAP Portugal
Thai Airways International
Turkish Airlines
Ukraine International Airlines
United Airlines
6. Swiss International Air Lines: Onboard Services
On all economy class flights in Europe, Swiss offers
beverage services.
Depending on the flight’s time and length, Swiss
might also offer snack services.
Swiss offers cold snacks on shorter flights and hot
snacks on longer flights.
The Europe economy class services include
sandwiches from a Swiss bakery.
Additionally, Swiss provides Swiss chocolate near the
end of all Swiss flights (Switzerland is one of ten
leading producers of chocolate).
16. The End
YouTube links:
Swiss International Air Lines Safety Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2WFBIifhhY
SWISS TV Commercial for Switzerland 2013:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uGdPmPGbdE
