Swiss International Air Lines has announced it will take six Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in a deal worth $1.9bn at list prices.
The airline’s parent, Lufthansa, made the order on behalf of Swiss, who will use the aircraft to replace its Airbus A340-300 fleet.
Harry Hohmeister, Chief Executive Officer of Swiss commented: “The Boeing 777-300ER is the ideal size and range to meet our Swiss market needs. “We have made a landmark decision to further invest in an advanced aircraft fleet to retain our competitive edge over many of our competitors who are operating aircraft with more than 300 seats on similar routes.”
In addition to this order, Lufthansa has also ordered two additional Airbus A380s, and 100 Airbus A320 family aircraft (split between 30 original and 70 neo variants).
For those of you heading to Zurich in January over the World Economic Forum event, which is held at Davos, the details of the ramp tours available at the airport have now been announced.
2013′s World Economic Forum event at Davos will take place from Tuesday 23rd to Sunday 27th January. It usually sees a great number of private and bizjet aircraft descending on Zurich Airport (and to a lesser extent Geneva Airport) which are not usually seen in Europe.
BUCHairTours will again be providing two-hour airside ramp tours on each day of the event (with multiple daily tours on Wednesday-Saturday). Tours start at Observation Deck B at Zurich Airport, and numbers are limited so it’s wise to book in advance! The cost is 30CHF per person.
Here’s a nice little video I came across today which shows the first Boeing 747-8 landing at Basel/Muhouse/Freiburg Airport. It is operated by Cargolux and was delivering a large item, and is clearly a large aircraft for this medium sized airport.
Mark Williams has posted this helpful and informative post on the current spotting situation at Zurich Airport. I hope you find it useful:
Once through immigration on the arrivals floor, head out of the terminal and turn right. You will see signs for the observation hall and ramp tours – simply head towards the hangars and as the road/perimeter fence turns left you will see the cabin on your right. Purchase a ticket from the machine at the entrance on your left if you only want to go to the observation hall (cost 2CHF – the machine accepts notes also although having the correct change might be wise) and then head to the security point where you and your belongings will go through an x-ray machine. Don’t forget you are going airside so the appropriate security measures need to be completed. There was no problem taking bottles of liquid through, especially important as there is only limited vending facilities on the deck itself. Once through, you then wait in a small room for the next bus to take you to the viewing deck atop Terminal E, situated in the middle of theairfield at the heart of the action. Buses are every 30 minutes during the summer weekends, running at 15 and 45 past the hour (the first one being 07:45). Last buses back are at 19:00 and 19:30 with the final departure back to the terminal at 20:00. Please note these are summer weekend times. Check on the excellent Zurich Airport website for winter and weekday schedules. The airport tour, which includes the hangar area, biz jet parking and a stop at the runway intersection for photos is also still available at 8CHF, but I didn’t go on it this time. Make sure you time it well for the bus, as I arrived just a couple of minutes after one had departed and the half hour wait in a stuffy room with very little in the way of views was a touch frustrating.
Next year’s World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland will once again fill up Zurich (and to a lesser extent Geneva) Airport with exotic biz jets from around the world. The best action takes place from Thursday 25th to Sunday 30th January.
BUCHair are once again providing ramp tours at Zurich Airport for enthusiasts interested in getting up close to the aircraft.
The 8th Aviation Collectors Show will be held on Saturday 12th Feburary 2011 at the Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg EuroAirport.
This is a chance for aviation enthusiasts and collectors to get together to buy, sell and trade items such as postcards, prints, slides, models, books, safety cards, DVDs.
As the MD-90′s use draws to a close in Europe, AirEvents.de have arranged a special farewell flight to take place in January at Zurich Airport.
The event will be flown by a Hello MD-90. The airline will shortly retire the type (as will SAS), leaving only a few select operators outside of Europe still flying the type.
This particular flight ties in with the World Economic Forum at Davos, which sees many business jets flying into Zurich, so it’ll be a pretty special spotting weekend if you do take part in the flight.
It’s nearly time for that annual event in Switzerland which sees spotters flocking to see an abundance of biz jets in one place, and some of them quite rare! The Davos conference is held in January, with most dignitaries flying into Zurich Airport. This year the dates covered are Tuesday 26 January to Sunday 31 January.
Most aircraft arrive on the first day (Tuesday), often positioning to Basle or Geneva to park up for the week, before returning to Zurich to pick up their passengers on the Sunday and returning home.
Buchair offer a number of ramp tours at Zurich during the event, giving you the opportunity to get up close and personal with the biz jets (and other airliners) in attendance. You can find the schedule and booking details at: http://www.buchairnet.ch/de/tour/2010_schedule.pdf
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Swiss International Air Lines has announced it will take six Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in a deal worth $1.9bn at list prices.
As the MD-90′s use draws to a close in Europe, 
