by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 18, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, First Class Terminal, Lufthansa |
In a ceremony that took place earlier this week as part of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Lufthansa Group came away with 5 Skytrax awards for a variety of categories.
Austrian took home 2 awards:
Best Business Class On Board Catering …… thanks to their popular ‘Do&Co’ catering along with on board chefs and a dedicated Viennese Coffee service on long haul flights.
‘Best Airline Staff in Europe’ ……thanks in large part to OS’ flight crews and ground agents.
Lufthansa took home 3 awards:
‘Best Transatlantic Airline’ …… due primarily to the near-complete rollout of the new business class and the introduction of Premium Economy along with several US routes being served by new 747-8i an A380 aircraft along with wide availability of inflight WiFi through FlyNet.
‘World’s Best First Class Lounge’ …… no surprise here, it’s impossible to beat Frankfurt’s First Class Terminal.
‘Best Airline In Western Europe’ ……. new aircraft along with enhanced inflight entertainment systems made it easy to capture this category.
The results were tabulated after receiving votes from over 18 million passengers in 160 countries. 200 Airlines were eligible for voting in various categories in their home markets and the markets they serve.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 16, 2015 | Contests, Featured, Swiss |
Earlier this month, SWISS launched a contest that awards its winner a trip to Switzerland to take part in a private photography workshop.
The Winner and their guest will fly SWISS (Economy) from one of their US gateways for their stay in Switzerland. You’ll spend one of your days in a photo workshop with photographer Chris Burkard in the Jungfrau region of Switzerland.
The rest of the prize package includes 8 days worth of Swiss Rail passes and 3 nights in a hotel in the Jungfrau region.
To enter, visit this website and upload a photo that you feel inspires travel. You’ll also be asked why you think you should be the lucky winner. Be aware that the photo must be yours and you must have all rights to it.
The winner will be selected by a panel of judges. For additional rules and conditions for this contest, please click here. Deadline to enter is June 22, 2015.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 16, 2015 | Featured, Fleet Update, Swiss |
To kick off the Paris Airshow, Bombardier and SWISS have announced a minor modification to SWISS’ existing CS100 order.
Originally, SWISS had ordered 30 CS100 aircraft that should begin entering service during 2016. However, the order has been amended to now include Bombardier’s CS300 as well.
SWISS’ CS100….photo courtesy of Bombardier
Specifically, the ‘middle 10’ of the existing 30 plane order will be converted from CS100 to CS300 aircraft. The expectation is that the CS300 will debut in the LX fleet sometime in 2017. This move allows SWISS more flexibility with route planning and capacity for their European routes since the CS100 is designed for approximately 100 passengers while the CS300 can be configured for up to 150 passengers.
Adding the CS300 has little impact on maintenance and training since the CS100 and CS300 share about 95% of the same pieces and parts. They also carry the same type rating so pilots do not need additional training to fly the -300.
SWISS also indicated that the aircraft will carry a 2-3 cabin configuration (2 seats on the left, 3 on the right) as well as the typical ‘European’ business class ‘cabin’. For those of you unfamiliar with ‘European Business Class’, its simply the economy cabin seat but without a passenger sitting next to you. For the 2-3 config, passengers sitting on the ‘2 seat side’ will not have someone sitting next to them, while the ‘3 seat side’ will have an empty middle seat.
