Hot on the heels of parent company Lufthansa Group announcing a new First Class and Business Class - Allegris - for its German airline, SWISS has unveiled its new premium cabins - offering passengers a more personalised “SWISS Senses” air travel experience. SWISS Premium Economy - which was introduced in 2022 - will be retained due to its npopularity.
SWISS will gradually install the new cabins throughout its long-haul fleet from 2025 onwards.
The centrepiece of SWISS Senses is an entirely redesigned cabin for the airline’s long-haul aircraft fleet.
“This is the most comprehensive cabin renewal in the history of our company,” says SWISS Chief Executive Officer Dieter Vranckx. “As a premium airline, we want to pay due and full regard to our customers’ desire for more individuality. And with this extremely high-quality product, we can continue to meet all our high aspirations.”
The new SWISS cabins follows the unveiling of the same Allegris First Class and Business Class cabins by sister-company Lufthansa - so passengers can expect the same seats & suites but with SWISS branding. SWISS announced late last year of its plan to fit Allegris seats into its premium cabins.
SWISS First: privacy assured
The new SWISS First Suites offer their guests total privacy with closable sliding doors, a spacious personal wardrobe, a large seat table, seat heating and cooling, a wireless charging station and a screen display that is as wide as the suite itself. The cabin’s centre suite can also be configured to suit two persons travelling together. The suites’ warm colours and wood features convey a strong sense of comfort and calm within top-quality surrounds. An advanced and spacious new washroom has also been developed for the new SWISS First cabin. The facility draws its inspiration from the famous spring in Vals in Canton Graubünden: a slate-black exterior, and a green interior that alludes to the spring’s fresh and cooling water.
SWISS Business: aisle access from every seat
The totally redesigned SWISS Business cabin is intentionally conceived to meet a wide range of wishes and needs. In addition to ‘classic’ Business Class seats, the new cabin offers various further seating options such as double seats for passengers travelling together. Selected seats can also be closed off with a sliding door. All the new SWISS Business seats feature seat heating and cooling and a wireless charging station. The cabin’s top-quality materials in claret and anthracite “help convey an extremely cosy and intimate ambience throughout”.
SWISS Premium Economy:
The popular SWISS Premium Economy Class with its greater seat comfort and superior cabin service will remain an integral feature of the airline's future. SWISS was the first airline in the Lufthansa Group to introduce the new Premium Economy seat which boasts 48-centimetre width and its almost one-metre pitch.
All the new cabin interiors will be installed from 2025 onwards, initially on the SWISS Airbus A330-300 fleet and later on the Boeing 777-300ERs. The new Airbus A350-900s on order will be delivered with their new cabins already installed.
Meanwhile, for the next three months, SWISS is taking its Business and First Class guests on a gourmet trip to Canton St. Gallen in the latest phase of its ‘SWISS Taste of Switzerland’ inflight culinary programme. The new meals have been created by Bernadette Lisibach, starred chef at the reputed Neue Blumenau restaurant in the village of Lömmenschwil. SWISS’s Premium Economy Class passengers will also enjoy a three-course inflight meal that has been inspired by Canton St. Gallen specialities.
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