Swiss has announced it is restoring services on many routes including Zurich
to Boston, Delhi and Birmingham and from Geneva to Stockholm, Dublin, Prague and
London City for the winter season.
The airline, part of the Lufthansa group, said the additions would
restore 85 per cent of its previous network. However, it added that the new
schedules would offer "only 30 to (at the most) 40 per cent of the capacities
provided for the same period last year" due to the numerous travel restrictions
and quarantine provisions currently in place.
The airline said scheduling is proving increasingly challenging in view of the various and ever-changing restrictions on international
mobility.
“As a result of the current pandemic’s global development and the
associated travel restrictions and quarantine provisions instead of effective
corona test procedures, the schedules we have devised for the coming winter
timetable period are well below our original expectations,” said Swiss chief commercial
officer Tamur Goudarzi Pour.
“We continue to advocate among others the adoption of
rapid-results Covid-19 testing, to help to enable people to travel again to a
reasonable degree and ensure optimum international mobility,” he added.
The Swiss government agreed loans to support the country's aviation sector in May.