Press Releases
SWISS has appointed long-serving journalist and aviation specialist Michael Weinmann to be its new Head of Media Relations.
25-Nov-2024
SWISS has appointed Alain Chisari as the new head of its Swiss WorldCargo airfreight division. He will take up his new duties on 1 October 2024.
27-Sep-2024
Tabea Hasler has been named as SWISS’s new Head of Revenue Steering. Hasler, who is a Swiss national, presently serves as Head of Digital Ecosystem Steering & Innovation for the Lufthansa Group.
09-Aug-2024
Julia Wetter-Studinka has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Regional Sales Switzerland. She will take up her duties on 1 September 2024.
02-Aug-2024
The SWISS Board of Directors has appointed Jens Fehlinger as the company’s new CEO. He will take up his new duties on 1 October 2024.
28-Jun-2024
Having completed its corporate restructuring, SWISS is to reconstitute its Board of Directors with effect from 1 July 2024. André Blattmann and Ashwin Bhat will relinquish their Board seats after...
22-May-2024
SWISS is to enlarge its Management Board. With effect from 1 May 2024, the presently three-member top management body will be expanded with the addition of a Chief Operating Officer.
05-Mar-2024
SWISS CEO Dieter Vranckx has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer of the Lufthansa Group. He will take up his new duties on 1 July 2024.
23-Feb-2024
SWISS Chief Financial Officer Markus Binkert has decided to leave the company after more than 19 years. He will take on new duties as CEO of the SV Group.
19-Feb-2024
SWISS has announced an imminent change in its top management: Heike Birlenbach, presently Senior Vice President Customer Experience Lufthansa Group Airlines, is to become SWISS Chief Commercial...
12-Dec-2023
SWISS and kapers, the union of the company’s cabin personnel, have jointly devised a new collective labour agreement (CLA) which features numerous improvements.
10-Nov-2023
Martin Knuchel has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Cabin Crew.
26-May-2023
In addition to training new ab initio pilots, SWISS will be recruiting trained first officers with or without a current type rating for the next few years.
29-Mar-2023
Ashwin Bhat, Chief Commercial Officer at Lufthansa Cargo, was newly elected to the SWISS Board of Directors at the company’s annual general meeting on 23 February 2023.
24-Feb-2023
Léa Wertheimer has been named as SWISS’s new Head of Corporate Communications, with responsibility for setting and implementing the company’s communications strategy.
23-Dec-2022
SWISS is to resume the recruitment and training of new pilots from 2023 onwards.
20-Dec-2022
SWISS and the kapers union of its cabin personnel have reached agreement on the cornerstones of a new collective labour agreement (CLA).
08-Dec-2022
After more than 11 years as SWISS’s Head of Corporate Communications, Daniel Bärlocher is to leave the company.
04-Oct-2022
With the partners unable to reach agreement on a new collective labour agreement for the company’s cockpit personnel, SWISS has proposed extrajudicial mediation to the Aeropers pilots’ association
22-Sep-2022
SWISS has presented the Aeropers pilots’ association with an offer for a new cockpit collective labour agreement (CLA) which is an improvement of more than CHF 60 million on the previous new CLA...
16-Sep-2022
SWISS is to gradually lift its crisis response measures agreed in Switzerland early. The company’s restructuring has stabilized its financial position and a positive trend can be seen in the...
01-Jul-2022
Julia Hillenbrand has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Brand Experience.
13-May-2022
SWISS has appointed Silvia Exer-Kuhn and Mike Pelzer as new spokespersons for the company.
12-May-2022
SWISS will be steadily expanding its services for summer 2022, and is already preparing for post-pandemic times.
01-Feb-2022