The SWISS long-haul route network will see a further innovation this summer. Douala will receive non-stop service to and from Zurich three times a week. Yaoundé will also enjoy a thrice-weekly service, via Douala. The revised and expanded flight pattern will substantially enhance SWISS services to Cameroon. While the new operation means the withdrawal of the present intermediate stop in Malabo, service will continue to be offered to Malabo on Lufthansa via Frankfurt. The 2008 summer schedules will also bring a new collaboration between SWISS and Contact Air, which will provide two Fokker 100 aircraft to join those already operated under a wet-lease agreement with Helvetic Airways. The new transports will be used on SWISS’s Zurich-based services to Warsaw, Venice and Stuttgart.
SWISS will offer its customers thrice-weekly non-stop service between Zurich and Douala from the start of the 2008 summer schedules. Douala has so far been served twice a week on a routing via Malabo; this intermediate landing is now being withdrawn. Service will also be enhanced on the Zurich-Yaoundé route, where the present weekly flight will be increased to three weekly frequencies, routed via Douala.
The new expanded services are a direct response to growing customer demand for more frequencies to Cameroon, and should substantially raise SWISS’s local market profile. Customers wishing to travel to Malabo will still be able to do so: Lufthansa will be offering three weekly services between Frankfurt and the capital of Equatorial Guinea from April 1 onwards, with convenient connecting flights to and from its Frankfurt hub. Lufthansa will also offer a weekly service to Luanda, Angola in its summer schedules. So all in all, the new service patterns should strengthen the Lufthansa Group’s presence and position in the African air travel market.
A new wet-lease partner
Contact Air, a regional Lufthansa partner, will assume operating responsibility for SWISS’s Zurich-Warsaw (thrice daily), Zurich-Venice (thrice daily) and Zurich-Stuttgart (six times weekly) services from April 1. The services will be operated using two Fokker 100 aircraft. The Fokker 100 has a capacity of 100 passengers. In Contact Air, SWISS has secured the services of an experienced partner to expand its present wet-lease arrangements. Wet-lease partner Helvetic Airways will be deploying three Fokker 100s on SWISS’s behalf in the 2008 summer schedules on services between Zurich and Budapest (thrice daily), Manchester (thrice daily), Birmingham (twice daily) and Brussels (one daily). And UK-based Flightline will be operating SWISS’s thrice-daily service between Zurich and Prague in the 2008 summer schedules under a further wet-lease agreement.
The innovations in brief
Intercontinental services
Zurich – Douala LX 274 12:30-17:55 (thrice weekly)
Douala – Yaoundé LX 274 18:55-19:40 (thrice weekly)
Yaoundé – Douala LX 275 21:00-21:45 (thrice weekly)
Douala – Zurich LX 275 22:55-06:25 (thrice weekly)
European services
SWISS flights operated by Contact Air
Zurich – Warsaw LX 1342 07:15-09:10 (daily)
Warsaw – Zurich LX 1343 09:45-11:50 (daily)
Zurich – Warsaw LX 1348 12:05-14:00 (daily)
Warsaw – Zurich LX 1349 14:35-16:40 (daily)
Zurich – Warsaw LX 1352 17:15-19:10 (daily)
Warsaw – Zurich LX 1353 19:45-21:50 (daily)
Zurich – Venice LX 1660 07:35-08:40 (daily)
Venice – Zurich LX 1661 09:40-10:55 (daily)
Zurich – Venice LX 1662 12:55-14:05 (daily)
Venice – Zurich LX 1663 14:40-15:55 (daily)
Zurich – Venice LX 1664 17:40-18:45 (daily)
Venice – Zurich LX 1665 20:25-21:30 (daily)
Zurich – Stuttgart LX 1178 22:40-23:20 (six times weekly)
Stuttgart – Zurich LX 1179 06:00-06:40 (six times weekly)
SWISS flights operated by Helvetic Airways
Zurich – Budapest LX 2250 07:25-08:55 (daily)
Budapest – Zurich LX 2251 09:50-11:30 (daily)
Zurich – Budapest LX 2254 12:30-14:00 (daily)
Budapest – Zurich LX 2255 14:45-16:25 (daily)
Zurich – Budapest LX 2258 17:20-18:55 (daily)
Budapest – Zurich LX 2259 19:50-21:25 (daily)
Zurich – Manchester LX 390 07:10-08:05 (daily)
Manchester – Zurich LX 391 08:40-11:45 (daily)
Zurich – Manchester LX 394 12:10-13:05 (daily)
Manchester – Zurich LX 395 13:40-16:40 (daily)
Zurich – Manchester LX 380 17:15-18:10 (daily)
Manchester – Zurich LX 381 18:45-21:45 (daily)
Zurich – Birmingham LX 420 07:10-08:05 (daily)
Birmingham – Zurich LX 421 08:40-11:40 (daily)
Zurich – Birmingham LX 424 17:15-18:05 (daily)
Birmingham – Zurich LX 425 18:40-21:35 (daily)
Zurich – Brussels LX 780 12:40-14:00 (daily)
Brussels – Zurich LX 781 15:00-16:20 (daily)
SWISS flights operated by Flightline
Zurich – Prague LX 1484 07:30-08:50 (daily)
Prague – Zurich LX 1485 09:50-11:15 (daily)
Zurich – Prague LX 1486 12:45-14:10 (daily)
Prague – Zurich LX 1487 14:45-16:10 (daily)
Zurich – Prague LX 1498 17:35-18:55 (daily)
Prague – Zurich LX 1499 19:45-21:10 (daily)
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