Swiss International Air Lines and Moscow Domodedovo Airport 10 Years Together
October 29, 2011, Swiss International Air Lines celebrated 10 years of opperatuos to Moscow Domodedovo Airport.
“When SWISS joined our team, it has become a landmark event for the airport, which proves the correctness of the chosen development strategy,” said Igor Borisov, Director of Domodedovo Airport. “Over 10 years of cooperation, we have become reliable partners, maintaining the tradition of providing high quality service to our customers.”
SWISS is a part of Lufthansa Group and a member of the largest global airline, Star Alliance, for which the base airport in Moscow is Moscow Domodedovo Airport.
SWISS is the leader in the Moscow-Switzerland destination and is operating two daily flights from Moscow to Zurich, and one flight to Geneva. Since December 16, 2011, SWISS will be operating 4 flights from Domodedovo per day by increasing the number of flights from Geneva to Moscow up to two flights a day.
Over 10 years of flights between Domodedovo Airport and the cities of Switzerland, SWISS has performed over 11,000 flights and transported 2,370,000 passengers.
Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. Is the national airline of Switzerland, which operates flights to 72 destinations in 39 countries from Zurich, as well as from Basel and Geneva. The airline’s fleet has 88 modern aircrafts, including 25 long-haul A330-300s and A340-300. The rest ones are the medium-and short-haul aircrafts, such as A320 Sun (A319, A320, A321) and Avro RJ 100.
Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest airport in Russia. Over 10 years, passenger traffic has increased almost 10-fold, from 2.8 million passengers in 2000 to 22.3 million passengers in 2010. Moscow Domodedovo Airport has been chosen for flights to Moscow by members of the world's leading aviation alliances: Star Alliance, Oneworld. Since 2010, Moscow Domodedovo Airport has been on the top of the list of the best airports in the Eastern Europe for the quality of its service, according to the annual rating by independent research company Skytrax Research (UK).