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Swiss International Air Lines

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-Mulhouse-Freiburg (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.

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

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.

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

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).

Swiss International Airlines chocolate

Swiss International RJ-100, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Swiss International Air Lines Airbus A330-200 departing from Zurich, June 2007

Swiss International Airbus A340-300

Swiss International Airbus A380

Swiss International Airbus A319-100

Swiss International Airbus A321-111

Swiss International 747-8

Swiss International McDonnell Douglas MD-11

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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