Direct flights between Zurich and San Francisco have been introduced by Swiss WorldCargo. These new flights come into effect from the June 2 2010. The six-times-a-week service will be operated by the company’s cargo division using A340-300 aircraft, which will double the capacity of the cargo to and from Zurich. SWISS also operates to Los Angeles from this region.
With the new direct-flight introduction, SWISS is capable of linking San Francisco, Los Angeles and Zurich. This gives it the all-important upper hand in terms of the distribution of care-intensive and time-sensitive cargo.
SWISS says that in North America, daily service between Zurich and New York, Boston, JFK, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal are on offer, which is in turn complemented by the RFS network. This includes cities such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Toronto. The newly introduced flights will use up existing aircraft capacity. Additions will happen along with the planned increase in frequency on routes to South America, India and Canada.
Jack Lampinski, managing director of Americas at Swiss WorldCargo, said: “These new services complement our strong North American network and demonstrate our commitment to providing customers with access to strategic global markets with all our range of special products. SWISS is one of the few carriers, which will be able to expand their network further in 2010. The new service to San Francisco shows that we are capable of seizing opportunities in a difficult market environment and we emerge from the crisis as a reliable partner for our customers.”
