SWISS’s first Airbus A350 arrived at its new home of Zurich Airport today (Thursday 9 October). The brand-new twinjet with its Swiss registration HB-IFA had taken off from Airbus Toulouse in the early afternoon and touched down at its new home base at 15:25 to the warmest of welcomes from numerous aviation fans. The Airbus A350 is the world’s most advanced widebody aircraft, and its addition to the SWISS fleet opens a new business and operating era. With its completely new ‘SWISS Senses’ cabin, the A350 offers a travel experience that raises comfort, design and technology to new heights. The new SWISS Senses concept reflects SWISS’s aspirations to provide a truly premium air travel product that is fit for today: individual, relaxing, sophisticated, and with a clear and consistent commitment to Swiss quality and hospitality.
SWISS’s first Airbus A350 landed at its new Zurich home this afternoon (Thursday 9 October) to mark a further milestone for the Swiss-based airline. Three SWISS pilots flew the brand-new long-haul twinjet to Switzerland from Airbus’s Toulouse factory. The aircraft touched down at 15:25, and docked shortly after for the first time at its new home base. The new addition to the SWISS fleet bears a special color scheme: its unique ‘Wanderlust’ livery, which is a striking and lively homage to Switzerland in all its finery and diversity. A large number of employees and aviation fans viewed the historic arrival of this first SWISS Airbus A350 from the airport’s observation deck.
A new SWISS era
“Today is a great day for us,” says SWISS CEO Jens Fehlinger. “With our Airbus A350, we’re transporting our customers into a new era of long-haul air travel. This aircraft represents everything we aim to be moving forward: efficient, advanced, and clearly positioned as a premium airline, from Switzerland and for Switzerland. With the A350 we’re taking a huge leap forward – technologically, ecologically, and in terms of our passengers’ inflight experience. It’s a very special thing to welcome a brand-new aircraft with a completely new cabin – something that will probably happen only once in anyone’s airline career. And it’s fascinating to see just how much progress and how much precision are embodied in this aircraft.”
“With our new SWISS Senses cabin, we’re bringing new levels of comfort and quality to the air travel world,” adds SWISS Chief Commercial Officer Heike Birlenbach. “For our guests this means more space, a more relaxing ambience, and a more individual air travel experience, from the light above the seat to the entire inflight service. Our new Airbus A350 stands for ‘premium’ as we understand it: modern, individual and hallmarked by a service that is attentive, personal and typically Swiss.”
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