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Harry Hohmeister, CEO of Swiss, spaeks at a press conference of Swiss Airlines about the strategy `Next Generation Airline of Switzerland`, in Kloten, Switzerland. Photo: EPA/BGNES
Swiss, the airline of Switzerland will start flights between Zurich and Sofia as of next year's summer, said the company in a statement on its website.
From the start of the 2015 summer schedules, Swiss will be supplementing its traditional hub concept with a new point-to-point system and expanding its Zurich-based European network through the addition of 22 new destinations.
Sixteen of the new points – Naples, Bari, Bilbao, Porto, Toulouse, Leipzig, Dresden, Graz, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Riga, Krakow, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb – will be provided with year-round service, while six of them – Palermo, Brindisi, Malta, Thessaloniki, Izmir and Santiago de Compostela – will be served in the summer months.
Parallel to this, Swiss will also be expanding its range of services from and to Geneva.
The new destinations are part of the “Next-Generation Airline of Switzerland” strategy, which will include a new-look cabin on its European Airbus fleet from the end of November onwards, along with fresh new Swiss products for its inflight foodservice in the Swiss economy cabin.
In the next few years the airline is planning to update its fleet by purchasing new aircraft.
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