Airport announces various changes to the winter flight schedule
Published: Monday, Oct 21st 2024, 11:10
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With the change to the winter flight schedule, Zurich Airport is offering new destinations. In addition, the Middle East, Asia and Africa will be better connected to Switzerland.
According to a statement from the airport on Monday, passengers can fly to 169 destinations with 53 airlines in the winter flight schedule, which begins next Sunday. New destinations have also been added: Giza in Egypt and Salalah on the coast of Oman. The airline Edelweiss is adding these two destinations to its portfolio, it is reported.
The Swiss airline now also offers scheduled flights to Kittilä and Rovaniemi in Finland and is expanding its connections to Tromsø in Norway.
Other destinations that are already served from Zurich will also be served by certain airlines for the first time or more frequently. These include the Tunisian capital Tunis, which is new to the Edelweiss offering, and the cities of Bordeaux and Manchester, which Easyjet has added to its portfolio.
Various airlines are also expanding their services in the winter timetable: Etihad, for example, is gradually increasing its service between Zurich and Abu Dhabi to two flights a day by June 2025, Cathay Pacific will resume daily flights to Hong Kong over the course of the winter and Ethiopian is increasing its frequency to Addis Ababa and will be serving the route daily from the end of October.
It is also reported that Air India will continue to operate the new service to New Delhi, which was launched in the summer, in the winter and Oman Air will return to Switzerland's largest airport with up to five flights a week between the capital Muscat and Zurich.
According to the information, the season will also be extended for various destinations served from Zurich or airlines will offer them in addition to the competition. According to the airport, the 2024/25 winter flight schedule will run until March 29, 2025.
Check-in 1 is blocked
From October 29 to March 19, 2025, the airport will be replacing the second half of the baggage carousels at Check-in 1, which will bring some changes for passengers traveling with Swiss, Lufthansa, Aegean, Austrian Airlines, Edelweiss Air, Brussels Airlines or Croatia Airlines.
Passengers who have booked an Economy class ticket can only check in at Check-in 3 from then on. Passengers with Business and First Class tickets or a Frequent Flyer card, which entitles them to check in at the Business or First Class counter, may continue to check in at Check-in 1. The airlines Vueling and Easyjet will temporarily switch to Check-in 2.
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