Swiss Air News
Green Fares extended for all SWISS domestic flights
From now onwards, only ‘Green Fares’ – which include a price component for offsetting the carbon emissions generated by the customer’s air travel – will be available for SWISS’s domestic air services between Zurich and Geneva.
SWISS appoints Martin Knuchel as its new Head of Cabin Crew
Martin Knuchel has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Cabin Crew. Knuchel, who presently serves as Head of Crisis, Emergency & Business Continuity Management for the Lufthansa Group Airlines, will assume his new duties on 1 July 2023.
Gstaad Palace becomes the first hotel to purchase sustainable aviation fuel
SWISS and the Gstaad Palace luxury Swiss hotel are embarking on a pioneering new partnership under which the Gstaad Palace becomes the first five-star-superior hotel to procure sustainable fuel for all its SWISS business travel.
SWISS promotes Swiss innovation and invests in Synhelion
SWISS has acquired a financial interest in Swiss-based technology company Synhelion in a further step to help bring solar fuels to market.
SWISS becomes the world’s first passenger airline to adopt carbon-efficient AeroSHARK technology
SWISS today became the first airline in the world to deploy the innovative AeroSHARK technology on its passenger services.
SWISS Head of Corporate Communications to leave the company
After more than 11 years as SWISS’s Head of Corporate Communications, Daniel Bärlocher is to leave the company.
SWISS joins the UN Global Compact
SWISS has become a member of the UN Global Compact Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein. In doing so, the airline is underlining its commitment to the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact and to sustainable development.
Improved SWISS offer for new cockpit collective labour agreement rejected by pilots’ association
SWISS has presented the Aeropers pilots’ association with an offer for a new cockpit collective labour agreement (CLA) which is an improvement of more than CHF 60 million on the previous new CLA proposed.