SWISS reports a successful Easter period: punctuality improved and more passengers carried
SWISS can look back on a successful Easter 2025 in both business and operational terms. Over the four-day period between Good Friday and Easter Monday, the airline flew more than 220,000 customers safely to their destinations while also achieving an on-time performance of some 79 per cent – a substantial punctuality improvement of more than six percentage points on the same period last year, despite the almost nine-per-cent increase in its passenger volumes. European city breaks and destinations in the USA were in especially high demand.
The Easter weekend is traditionally one of the busiest of the year in travel terms. In the period between Good Friday (18 April) and Easter Monday (21 April) inclusive, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) transported some 220,000 travelers, an increase of almost nine per cent on the passengers it carried over the same period last year. SWISS operated around 1,700 flights in the four-day period – a hundred more than over Easter 2024.
Some 79 per cent of all the flights that SWISS operated over this year’s Easter period departed on time, i.e. within 15 minutes of their scheduled time of departure – a substantial improvement of more than six percentage points on the same period last year. As a result, SWISS remains on course to achieve an on-time performance of 70 per cent for 2025 as a whole. The airline also posted a schedule stability of 97 per cent for the Easter period, and kept short-notice schedule changes in particular to a minimum.
“Preparations in top gear”
“We took a number of targeted preparatory actions on the ground and in the air to keep our operations as stable as possible, however challenging the conditions,” explains SWISS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Buchhofer. “The fact that we were able to significantly improve our punctuality while also welcoming more passengers aboard shows just how effective these careful preparations have been.”
“I’d also like to highlight the exceptional work that our people in all areas of our company put into looking after our customers over the busy Easter period,” Buchhofer continues. “And I offer them my own sincere thanks for all their commitment, their flexibility and their tangible team spirit. Our preparations are also already in top gear for the coming summer travel season, when we’ll again be doing our utmost to provide our guests with a reliable air travel experience.”
Strong travel demand for Europe and the USA
City breaks within Europe – such as to London, Munich and Berlin – were particularly popular among SWISS travelers over this year’s Easter period. On the long-haul front, the US destinations of New York, Miami and Chicago were in especially high demand.