As a result of the current vaccination progress and the loosening of international travel restrictions, Swiss is recording a short-term increase in booking numbers for the summer. For this reason, the Lufthansa subsidiary will be adding or resuming 49 new destinations from Zurich and Geneva in June and July, and will serve a total of 125 routes in midsummer - 85 from Zurich and 40 from Geneva.

The total supply is structurally well below that of before the pandemic and is expected to grow to 50 to 55 percent of the capacity of 2019 in midsummer.

“The short-term increase in demand that we are currently seeing for the summer shows us clearly how great people's longing for travel is. We would like to counter this with a flight program that is as comprehensive as possible and tailored to demand. We also assume that bookings will continue to increase over the course of the summer. Overall, however, the bookings are still well below the level of the time before the pandemic and a structural recovery in aviation is unfortunately not yet apparent, ”said Swiss boss Tamur Goudarzi Pour.

A wide range of popular travel destinations

The airline's range of flights will grow in the coming weeks. From Zurich, these include, for example, European destinations such as Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Cork, Florence, Heringsdorf, Ljubljana, Milan, Marseille and Oslo. In the long-haul area, Cairo and Los Angeles will be resumed. Swiss also now connects Zurich with Billund and Tallinn.

From Geneva, passengers will again have direct connections to the following destinations: Alicante, Biarritz, Brindisi, Catania, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Corfu, Mykonos and Thessaloniki. Swiss will also fly to Funchal, Ponta Delgada, Santorini and Split.