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PIUS KOLLER
![Soon there will be more going on at the airport than in previous weeks.]()
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Soon there will be more going on at the airport than in previous weeks.
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Imago
![Swiss will continue to take additional freight on the long haul.]()
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Swiss will continue to take additional freight on the long haul.
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Nathalie Taiana
![Such pictures of Zurich Airport will soon be a thing of the past.]()
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Such pictures of Zurich Airport will soon be a thing of the past.
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keystone-sda.ch
![For weeks, 24 airplanes from Swiss and Edelweiss have been standing at Dübendorf airfield.]()
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For weeks, 24 airplanes from Swiss and Edelweiss have been standing at Dübendorf airfield.
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Swiss will partially restart flight operations in June. It plans to operate up to 190 flights to 41 European destinations from Zurich and Geneva. The structure is staggered, the offer is gradually increased over the weeks, as the airline announced.
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Destinations in the Mediterranean region such as Málaga, Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia in Spain or Brindisi, Florence, Naples and Rome in Italy will also be flown to again. The connection to Scandinavia will also be strengthened with flights to Gothenburg in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark.
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Again on the long haul
Swiss will also include important European centers in its program, such as Paris, Brussels and Moscow. Existing connections to Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Lisbon, London, Porto and Stockholm will be expanded.
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And on the long haul? The airline plans to offer flights from Zurich to New York JFK, Chicago, Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. Swiss World Cargo, the Swiss airfreight division, will carry additional cargo on these flights to support the global supply chains.
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The Lufthansa subsidiary plans to expand its offering in the summer months.
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Only 5 percent of the flight offer
Swiss had to shut down operations at the end of March. 24 aircraft were parked at Dübendorf ZH airport, among others. Seven other machines even in Jordan. The worldwide corona virus measures forced the airline to take this drastic step. Since the outbreak of the corona crisis, Swiss has so far only maintained 5 percent of the flight offer for passengers.
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The financial consequences for the airline as well as for the ground operations such as Gategourmet and Swissport are serious. Zurich Airport is also suffering from the consequences of the Corona crisis. In April, 99 percent fewer passengers traveled from Zurich than in the previous year. Fewer than since 1952.
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