Swiss International Air Lines is adding a further major long-haul destination to its network in its 2010 summer schedules (which run from March 28 to October 30).

New to the Swiss network is San Francisco, which will receive six-times-weekly service from June onwards. Within Europe, customers will enjoy two daily services to Malaga from May.

Swiss will operate to 73 destinations in 39 countries in its summer schedules. Over 50 further points will be served non-stop from Zurich under codeshare agreements with partner airlines, two-thirds of these with sister carrier Edelweiss Air.

Following the company’s partnership with Singapore Airlines, Swiss customers will also enjoy daily Airbus A380 service between Zurich and Singapore from March 28  onwards.

Swiss will operate to 48 points in Europe and 25 intercontinental destinations in the 2010 summer schedules with its 85-aircraft fleet. The current replacement of the carrier’s Airbus A330-200s by the new A330-300s will be completed by the end of the year.

Swiss will operate a total of 2 862 flights a week in its new summer timetable.

One weekly flight will be withdrawn from the Delhi, Bangkok and Cairo routes, in response to seasonal traffic trends.

A partnership with Turkish Airlines will enable Swiss customers to travel non-stop to Istanbul from Geneva or Basel from April onwards.

Swiss will serve 11 destinations with its own flights from Geneva in the summer timetable, and a further 23 under codeshare arrangements.-TradeArabia News Service