Though most people across the country will be focused on preparing for their summer holidays, SWISS is already looking to the future, having just released its winter timetable for 2025/26. Here’s what you need to know about the new schedule:
While the summer schedule had to be cut back at SWISS due to a shortage of pilots, there is little sign that the disruption will affect the company’s winter timetable. The period, running from October 26, 2025, to March 28, 2026, will see the flag-carrier offer flights from Zurich and Geneva to 90 different destinations.
Zurich Airport will receive 63 direct flights from SWISS to places in Europe, and 23 cities further afield. Geneva will be served by 20 direct short-haul flights, and the route from the city to New York.
As for changes, SWISS will increase the number of flights between Zurich and Kraków from seven a week to nine from late October. This is so that travellers from Switzerland can enjoy its “medieval Old Town, its festive lighting and its general gentle calm” in both summer and winter, SWISS wrote in a statement. Services will also be increased between Zurich and Rome (21 flights a week), Manchester (15 a week), Porto (14 a week) and Naples (six a week).
In addition, several routes originally consigned to the summer timetable will continue to run into the winter. This includes the three times weekly flights from Zurich to Cluj-Napoca in Romania and Košice in Slovakia, and the flight from the Swiss city to Washington D.C, which first launched in summer 2024.
By comparison, SWISS’s plans for Geneva are less ambitious, with the company set to focus “on the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia, with a particular eye to winter sports enthusiasts keen to visit Swiss ski resorts.” With a direct train between Switzerland and London only set to take to the tracks in the 2030s, the airline will run 39 flights between Geneva and the British capital every week.
In addition, the likes of Dublin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Gothenburg will all be getting direct flights to Geneva during the winter schedule.
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