Operations-wise, the B777 is scheduled to begin shorthaul crew familiarization flights early next month with destinations set to include: Geneva, Barcelona El Prat, Frankfurt International, London Heathrow, Hamburg Helmut Schmidt, Malaga, and Hanover.
Thereafter, a further three B777s - set to arrive in February and April of 2017 and March of 2018 - will replace three other A340s - destined for Swiss's leisure subsidiary Edelweiss Air (WK, Zurich) - over the same period. The B777s will be used to replace Swiss's outgoing fleet of A340-300s with six B777s scheduled to replace six A340s this year. The aircraft, HB-JNA (msn 44582), was ferried from Everett to Zurich on Friday, January 29 and is in actual fact wet-leased from sister firm Swiss Global Air Lines ( Zurich). Swiss (LX, Zurich) has taken delivery of its first of nine B777-300(ER)s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National).
