Flying From the West Coast to Switzerland Is About to Get Simpler — What to Know

Edelweiss, a Switzerland-based airline that’s owned by Lufthansa, not too long ago introduced new twice-weekly flights from Seattle’s SeaTac Airport to Zurich Airport. 

The flights will function each Monday and Saturday and depart Seattle at 4:25 p.m. arriving into Zurich at 11:45 a.m. the following day. The return flights can even function on Monday and Saturday from Zurich to Seattle. The Seattle route is an addition to current Edelweiss routes in Denver, Las Vegas, and Tampa Bay, Florida. 

The flights will start on June 2, 2025, offering west coast vacationers a possibility to benefit from the mountain climbing and great thing about Switzerland and the encompassing areas in the course of the summer time. From Zurich, passengers can both keep and benefit from the largest metropolis in Switzerland, or connect with over 90 locations that Edelweiss flies to starting from Agadir, Morocco, or Bari, Italy. The airline additionally flies all through Croatia, France, Greece, Eire, Spain, and Turkey.

The airline can even start a brand new route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Zurich on July 3, 2025. Tickets for each flight routes weren’t instantly out there for buy on Edelweiss’s web site.

“This nonstop service provides a handy hyperlink to Zurich, on the coronary heart of Europe, whereas additionally bringing a big variety of Swiss vacationers to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest,” Edelweiss CEO Bernd Bauer stated within the launch. 

Edelweiss is described as Switzerland’s leisure airline, and provides a wide range of experiences in-flight together with Enterprise Class, Economic system Max, and Economic system Class. For the brand new Seattle to Zurich routes, Edelweiss will function the flight on a Airbus A340-300 which has a passenger capability of 214, the place 27 seats are lie-flat enterprise class. The economic system cabin is supplied with a 11.1″ high-definition touchscreen leisure system, which has over 250 items of content material to observe. 

Edelweiss is owned by Lufthansa Group, and is described as a “sister airline” of Swiss Worldwide Airways, which can also be owned by the German firm. Edelweiss has been persevering with to develop as worldwide journey demand hits new data. The airline supplied air journey for two.7 million passengers in 2023, which was a rise of two.2 million passengers in 2022.