(TAN): Swiss International Air Lines is set to offer its customers a new ‘Airtrain’ rail service between Geneva’s Cornavin central station and Zurich Airport in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).
The new Airtrain service is intended to supplement the existing air services between Geneva and Zurich airports, to continue to give the people of Western Switzerland the best possible connections with the intercontinental and European air services that the airline operates from its Zurich hub.
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Swiss International Air Lines has reduced its own Zurich-Geneva flight frequencies in view of the present coronavirus pandemic.
As part of the new Airtrain service, selected SBB trains between Geneva Cornavin and Zurich Airport will be assigned Swiss International flight numbers. Travel on these trains to the Swiss’ hub in Zurich is included in the flight ticket. The new facility also extends to any passenger of the airline commencing their rail journey from Geneva Airport (Cointrin) station.
The new Airtrain programme is the third of its kind: similar services are already offered to the airline’s customers on the Basel-Zurich Airport and Lugano-Zurich Airport rail routes.
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“Keeping Western Switzerland closely connected with our global Zurich-based flight network is extremely important to us,” the airline’s CEO Thomas Klühr said. “In extending these Airtrainservices to Geneva, we are offering our customers even more choice in planning their travels with SWISS. We’re also responding to a growing demand among our guests for greater combinability of their air and rail travel options.”
The new Airtrain timetables between Geneva Cornavin and Zurich Airport offer Swiss International Air Lines travellers up to 10 SBB trains a day in each direction, which provides substantially more choice and flexibility than the four daily Geneva-Zurich flights that SWISS has operated to date. The additional options will ensure favourable connections at Zurich Airport to and from all the key SWISS flights. The Airtrain is also available to travellers on SWISS-codeshare Edelweiss flights.
Swiss International Air Lines and the SBB established their new strategic partnership to expand intermodal travel in Switzerland in October of last year.
