today is a big day for Swiss international airlines. A new era starts for swiss. In the last years the longhaul fleet of swiss contains Airbus A330 and A340 airplanes (my review Swiss FirstClass, review Swiss Business Class), but starting today, they are (partly) switching to Boing.
In July 2015, swiss published a nice video of the new interior of this beautiful new products in the air, see below.
During the day, I will add some more pictures and facts about the new planes, I’ll show you a lot of pictures of the opening ceremony of the new Lounges in Concourse E in Zurich and more. Especially if you are interested in aviation and travel, you could get impressions inside and outside the plane in Zurich. Please follow me on twitter and instagram to get the fist look today.
sixty two BUSINESS CLASS SEATS. Similar to the current plans, the seats will get the 1-2-2 or 2-2-1 configuration. As usual on swiss planes, you could get the best (alone) seat on 7A, 9A… with plenty of space around. There is also this little private cabin behind the first class, rows four and five with only 10 seats in the first section of the business class cabin. Especially if you flying during the night, it’s the best option to get much more rest, because this small private cabin section.
Look at this map, the first Swiss Boeing 777 destinations will be New York and Montreal. The first (longhaul)flight will be the fight LX14, departing 12:55pm on February 21st, 2016 from Zurich. Before starting the regular longhaul operation, swiss operation intra Europe familiarization flights, the starting on February 8th to Geneva and Frankfurt. (ZRH-GVA-ZRH-FRA-ZRH).
Disclaimer: I was invited by SWISS for this event and the flights to the invent were complimentary. My opinion is- of course- unaffected by this.