On 18 November 2020, it was announced that Dieter Vranckx would assume the position of CEO as of 1 January 2021. It assumed Swissair's old ICAO code of SWR (Crossair's was CRX), to maintain international traffic rights. Swiss retains Crossair's IATA code LX (Swissair's code was SR). The new airline was built around what had been Swissair's regional subsidiary, Crossair. The airline was formed following the bankruptcy in 2002 of Swissair, Switzerland's then-flag carrier. The company's registered office is in Basel. Its headquarters are at EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg near Basel, Switzerland, and an office at Zurich Airport in Kloten, Switzerland. Zurich Airport serves as its sole hub and Geneva Airport as a focus city. It operates scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Swiss International Air Lines AG, colloquially known as SWISS, is the flag carrier of Switzerland and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, as well as a Star Alliance member. For the flag carrier of Switzerland before 2002, see Swissair. Breakfast comes 90 minutes from Hong Kong, leaving a near full night's sleep in between.'Swiss Airlines' redirects here.

Wine fills are regular and all requests are treated with polite importance. The three-course dinner is under way within 40 minutes of take-off, with everything cleared less than two hours into the flight. Wi-Fi data, ranging from 20MB to 220MB, can be purchased, with prices starting at about $12.Ĭalm and quick, allowing plenty of time for sleep. The movie selection is big on the likes of Marvel and Maze Runner, but there's an interesting selection of other films also.

The trade-off for the extra legroom is that reaching for the screen is like a yoga class, while the handset control tucked into the armrest is a little fiddly in its habit of returning to the beginning of the movie list each time you preview a film – a nuisance when there are 99 movies to potentially scroll through. Comfort accoutrements include a Victorinox pack containing socks, eye mask, earplugs, lip balm, toothbrush and toothpaste. There's a massage setting in the chair (though it's more a gentle prod in the back than anything that's going to have you gurgling with pleasure) and row 4 – the first row back from first class – has the most legroom of all the section's rows, so the leg space when seated is extravagant. All 62 business-class seats are flatbed, and there's a compartment for shoes and a drawer beneath the TV screen for other items.

With the flight departing Zurich at 10.40pm, sleep and comfort are the paramount factor in my flight enjoyment.