SWISS NEWS

Martin Apsel-von zur Gathen named new Head of Operations Planning & Steering at SWISS

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Jul 16^th 2021 |

Martin Apsel-von zur Gathen has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Operations Planning & Steering. He will a...

SWISS names Marco Willa as its new Head of Regional Sales Switzerland

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Jul 6^th 2021 |

Marco Willa has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Regional Sales Switzerland. He will take up his duties on 1 September. Willa currently serves as the Luftha...

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Dominique Fehlmann to assume further leadership functions at SWISS

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Jun 14^th 2021 |

Dominique Fehlmann, SWISS’s Head of Legal, Corporate Affairs & Compliance, is to take on the additional function of Head of Business Development & Executive Offi...

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Stefan Vasic named new Head of Marketing at SWISS

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Jun 4^th 2021 |

Stefan Vasic has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Marketing. He will take up his new duties on 1 July. Vasic is presently the company’s Head of Sponsoring & Events, Social Media and Tourism Partnershi...

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SWISS appoints Romain Vetter as its new Head of Western Switzerland

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Apr 1^st 2021 |

Romain Vetter has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Western Switzerland, with commercial responsibility for the company’s Geneva-based business activit...

A new Head of Technical Division at SWISS

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Dec 3^rd 2020 |

Claus Bauer has been appointed as SWISS's new Head of Technical Fleet Management and Process Owner Engineering, replacing Peter Wojahn who will retire at the end of January. This appointment will be effective on Febru...

SWISS and airBaltic among the first customers of Airbus' FHS-C offer for the A220 family

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Nov 5^th 2020 |

Airbus has revealed that SWISS and airBaltic are among the first customers of its new Flight Hour components maintena...

Lufthansa says Bern to offer 1.2 bn-euro state-backed loan to Swiss subsidiaries

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Apr 30^th 2020 |

German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday that Bern had agreed to offer state-backed loans of around 1.2 billion...

SWISS CFO Michael Niggemann appointed to the Lufthansa Group Executive Board

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Dec 5^th 2019 |

Michael Niggemann, Chief Financial Officer of SWISS, has been appointed to the Executive Board of the Lufthansa Group, on which he will succeed Bettina Volkens as Chie...

Most of grounded Swiss A220 fleet resumes flying after checks

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Oct 17^th 2019 |

Switzerland's main airline said that it expected more than half its fleet of Airbus A220s to resume flying on Wednesday after checks proved their engines were in "per...

Nomination

Changes of personnel on the SWISS Board of Directors

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Nov 17^th 2017 |

André Blattmann, former Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS). He will take up his pos...

Bombardier signs SWISS as Launch customer for C Series aircraft smart parts component support

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, May 12^th 2016 |

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that Swiss International Air Lines (“SWISS”) has selected Bombardier’s...

SWISS Celebrate Delivery of Airline's First 777-300ER

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Jan 29^th 2016 |

Boeing and Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) are celebrating the delivery of the airline's first 777-300ER (Extended Range). The latest addition to SWISS' fleet to...

Swiss WorldCargo opts for Unisys cloud-based ebooking system

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Oct 15^th 2014 |

Unisys Corporation announced that Swiss WorldCargo, the airfreight division of Swiss International Air Lines, has successfully launched a new eBooking system based on ...

Newly-converted Airbus A320 simulator receives FOCA certification

AIR TRANSPORT | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Oct 7^th 2014 |

Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) formally received the certification for its new Airbus A320 simulator from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA). The new simu...