Airlines
Swiss and KLM boost trend to reconnect Europe with China
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is to resume passenger services to and from Mainland China. SWISS will initially offer one weekly non-stop flight between Zurich and Shanghai from 3 March. Service on the route should then be expanded to three weekly frequencies from April onwards. The flights will generally be operated using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, or alternatively Airbus A340-300.
In addition to resuming its Zurich-Shanghai passenger flights, SWISS will also be increasing its service to and from Hong Kong from five to six weekly frequencies in the 2023 summer schedules.
And KLM will operate a service three times a week from Amsterdam to Hong Kong. Starting with six non-stop flights to both Beijing and Shanghai, planning to increase daily services in May. Beijing hereby returns to the network.
The increased number of flights from 26 March, 2023, marks the next step in the resumption of routes from and via Amsterdam to Greater China. The Chinese market is important to the KLM network, because of the level of demand from business travellers.
The planned schedules for the summer schedule are as follows:
Amsterdam – Hong Kong Tues./Thurs./Sat.
Hong Kong – Amsterdam Wed./Fri./Sun.
Amsterdam – Beijing daily
Beijing – Amsterdam daily
Amsterdam – Shanghai daily
Shanghai – Amsterdam daily
Detailed flight times, days and fares may be consulted on KLM.com or in the KLM app
