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Wizz Air's new direct flight routes from Switzerland

The hungarian Low Cost Carrier Wizz Air lately announced four new flight routes from Switzerland as follows:
Basel - Skopje as of 30 October 2012,
Basel - Belgrade from 15 December 2012,
Geneva - Budapest from 14 December 2012
and Geneva - Bucharest from 19 May 2013.

Darwin Airline with new Geneva - Prague route

The swiss airline Darwin has started daily Geneva - Prague connection in code share with CSA Czech Airlines.

U2 with 6 new routes ex GVA and BSL

Starting with the winter schedule low cost carrier easyJet operates six new routes from Switzerland as follows:
Basel - Brussels from 28Oct12 up to 6 x weekly 
Basel - Budapest from 28Oct12 up to 4 x weekly 
Basel - Manchester from 29 Oct12 up to 4 x weekly 
Geneva - London Southend from 14Dec12 up to 3 x weekly (seasonal) 
Geneva - Seville from 21Feb13 up to 3 x weekly.

Air Europa launches Geneva - Madrid double daily

The spanish airline Air Europa will start two daily flights from Madrid to Geneva as of 30 October 2011 as follows:

Madrid-Geneva  09:00-10:50  UX 1641
Geneva-Madrid  11:35-13:35  UX 1642
Madrid-Geneva  15:35-17:25  UX 1643
Geneva-Madrid  18:10-20:10  UX 1644

Air Europa is member of the Skyteam airline alliance and the new route will enable travellers to South America to benefit from the Skyteam connections to Latin America out of Madrid.

citytrip.ch 23Jun11

easyJet with new Geneva - Bilbao connection

As of today no airline is serving direct flights from Switzerland to Bilbao. This will change on 31. October 2011 when easyJet starts direct flight operations from Geneva to Bilbao. Flights will take place up to three times per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

citytrip.ch 23Jun11

SriLankan restarts direct flights from Colombo to Zurich

SriLankan Airlines, formerly known as Air Lanka, reinstates direct flight connections from Colombo to Zurich. As of 23 December 2011 SriLankan will operate this route two times a week as follows:
Colombo - Zurich: Friday direct / Monday via Male
Zurich - Colombo: Monday direct / Friday via Male.

citytrip.ch 23Jun11

New flight route from Geneva to Berlin Tegel

The swedish Airline Skyways will start a new route from Berlin to Geneva on 20 June 2011. Flights will operate twice daily from Monday to Friday as follows:
 
Flight schedule from 20 June 2011: Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr
Berlin TXL - Geneva GVA 06:30-08:00
Geneva GVA - Berlin TXL 08:30-10:00
Berlin TXL - Geneva GVA 17:40-19:10
Geneva GVA - Berlin TXL 19:40-21:10

As Skyways cooperates with Air Baltic the new route can also be booked  in code share with Air Baltic (BT) flight number.

citytrip.ch 19May11

Emirates will fly to Geneva from June 2011

Emirates currently offers double-daily flights between Dubai and Zurich and will start daily operations from Dubai to Geneva on 01 June 2011. The new route will be operated with Boeing 777-200LR (266 seats) and 777-300ER (354 seats) aircrafts in a three-class configuration and 15-20-tonne cargo capacity.
According to Emirates press release Geneva will be the 26th Emirates destination in Europe and the 111th international flight route.
Flight schedule:
EK 089 Dubai - Geneva / 08:55 - 14:10
EK 090 Geneva - Dubai / 15:40 - 23:59

Geneva is already served by other ambitious airlines from the gulf of arabia such as Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways. Each of them operates 5 weekly flight to Geneva from their Hubs in Doha and Abu Dhabi.

citytrip.ch 02Dec10

Charter flights ex Switzerland for winter 2010/11

The swiss travel trade magazine Travel Inside has published the "Holiday Flights" for winter 2010/11.
The "Holiday Flights" feature almost all charter flights from Zurich, Basle, Geneva and Friedrichshafen/DE for the next winter season. 
This is a nice tool to see which swiss tour operator operates charters (full charter, partcharter, seat allotments) where to and when.
Click here to download the "Holiday Flights" as pdf.
The flights are part of holiday packages but many are also available as flight-only. A list of holiday destinations available as "flight-only" can be found here (german).

citytrip.ch 09Sep10

678208 easyJet cheap flight tickets on offer

For a limited time 678208 easyJet cheap flight tickets from Switzerland are available for booking.
The special offer applies to travel from 01 October to 15 December 2010 and ends on 07 September 2010 at midnight.
easyJet has 16 aircrafts based in Switzerland and operates direct flights from Geneva (46 routes), Basel (30 routes) and Zurich (2 routes).

citytrip.ch 03Sep10