Star Alliance welcomes SWISS as its newest member
At a ceremony held in Zurich today, Star Alliance, the airline network for Earth™, welcomed Swiss International Air Lines into the alliance as its 17th member. With immediate effect, customers travelling on flights operated by SWISS will benefit from all the advantages which the members of the alliance offer.
These include, among others, a network of more than 15,500* daily flights serving 842* destinations in 152* countries, through check-in, mileage redemption and collection and access to more than 660* lounges.
“With SWISS, our alliance has gained a high-quality airline with a strong brand. We now provide more choice to our customers, especially on key European and intercontinental business routes. Moreover, with Switzerland being the traditional base for many corporate clients, we look forward to offering our customer benefits to even more travellers than before,” said Jaan Albrecht, Star Alliance CEO.
“For SWISS, joining Star Alliance is a major strategic milestone,” said SWISS CEO Christoph Franz at the formal accession ceremony. “It creates a comprehensive network of air services and connections for our passengers that truly spans the globe.
The co-branding of aircraft among Star Alliance members also helps to raise the awareness of the alliance and its benefits among our customers. And we are proud to carry the Star Alliance logo on our aircraft throughout our route network.”
With Zurich now being an alliance hub, Star Alliance offers flight connections through no less than 11 European hubs – Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London – Heathrow, Lisbon, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich – more than any other alliance. In addition to its extensive European network, SWISS offers long-haul flights to key destinations in North and South America, Africa and Asia, complementing the existing network, and in some cases adding new destinations like Benghazi (Libya), Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), Douala and Yaounde (Cameroon) and Nairobi (Kenya).
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