SWISS\u2019s first Airbus A350 HB-IFA departed from Zurich for Boston at 18:37 this (Thursday) evening on its first revenue long-haul flight. The event marks a further milestone for the airline: travelers on the Zurich-Boston route can now enjoy in full the completely new cabin and enhanced inflight service of the new \u2018SWISS Senses\u2019 long-haul air travel concept in all seating classes. SWISS\u2019s first Airbus A350 will continue to be deployed on short-haul services, too, over the next few weeks, to train crews on the new twinjet as efficiently as possible. Montreal will be the new SWISS A350\u2019s second long-haul destination.<\/p>\n
SWISS\u2019s first new Airbus A350 HB-IFA departed from Zurich for Boston at 18:37 this (Thursday) evening on its first revenue long-haul flight. The event is a further premiere for Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), and ushers in a new air travel era with the first full implementation of the new \u2018SWISS Senses\u2019 concept for the company\u2019s long-haul flights.<\/p>\n
SWISS Senses offers a winning blend of design, comfort and Swiss hospitality in all classes of travel, from a welcome drink with Sbrinz cheese<\/a> to refined meal choices, the Alpine Essence signature cocktail<\/a>, new Business Class bedlinen<\/a>, top-quality care items and state-of-the-art inflight entertainment. And with the new Zurich-Boston Airbus A350 operation, travelers can experience for the first time both the new SWISS Senses cabin and the accompanying enhanced long-haul inflight service.<\/p>\n \u201cOur new Airbus A350 marks the next step in our development, in technological, commercial and guest experience terms,\u201d says SWISS CEO Jens Fehlinger. \u201cIt\u2019s quieter, more efficient and more comfortable than any other aircraft we have operated to date. Investments of this kind don\u2019t just sharpen our own competitive edge: they consolidate Switzerland\u2019s place, too, in the air travel world. A strong and viable SWISS is vital: for our customers, for our employees and for the whole Swiss economy. Every long-haul aircraft we operate creates some 300 jobs, from the crews and the planners all the way to the suppliers of the ingredients for our inflight culinary offerings \u2013 which underlines just how closely our business and operations are woven into the broader Swiss economy.\u201d<\/p>\n Premium and Swissness<\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s flight turns our vision into tangible reality,\u201d adds SWISS Chief Commercial Officer Heike Birlenbach. \u201cOur new cabin interior and enhanced inflight service create an air travel experience that combines comfort, quality and core Swiss values. We have paid close attention to every individual detail \u2013 from the materials used to our menu options and our new comfort items \u2013 to ensure that SWISS Senses offers our customers genuine added value that appeals to all the senses. With this new inflight product package, we\u2019re declaring what we want SWISS to be in the years ahead: reliable, consistently aligned to our guests and their needs, and with both \u2018premium\u2019 and \u2018Swissness\u2019 centerstage. So our Boston premiere today shows what SWISS long-haul travel will look and feel like tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n ‘;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWISS\u2019s first Airbus A350 HB-IFA departed from Zurich for Boston at 18:37 this (Thursday) evening on its first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3324,3327,3326,3325,41,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-7486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-3324","9":"tag-a350","10":"tag-fleet-and-network","11":"tag-press-releases","12":"tag-swiss","13":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}