SWISS adds 12 A333's/A343's

[TWA]

Very impressive, on top of their current 21 A332's and A343's they will add another 12 wide body aircraft!

source CH aviation:


Swiss (LX/Zurich) will place an order for 9 A330-300s through its parent Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt). It will also lease three additional ex-Air Canada (AC/Montreal Trudeau) A340-300s. Swiss has wet-leased a BAe 146-300 from Flightline (UK) (B5/Southend) for its Zurich-Birmingham route and a MD-82 from Spanair (JK/Palma de Mallorca) for its Zurich-Nice and Zurich-Madrid routes until the end of the summer season. The new longhaul aircraft will allow Swiss to open new longhaul services:
Zurich-Delhi: daily A330-200 service starting on November 25
Zurich-Shanghai Pu Dong: daily A340-300 service starting on March 30, 2008
In other news, Swiss has signed a codeshare agreement with Star Alliance partner US Airways (US/Charlotte).

[Outsync]

Damn, impressive fleet!

[ryanCX]

its amazing how Swiss has turned around since Lufthansa took over the company. Its going from strength to strength and it says here that now Swiss is actually more profitable than Lufthansa.