Edelweiss Drops Tokyo But Adds Orlando Link

Swiss carrier Edelweiss Air has dropped its plans to inaugurate services to Tokyo Narita following last month’s earthquake. The airline was due to add a weekly link to the Japanese capital from Zurich between May 28 and September 24 but lower demand means that this route is viewed as no longer sustainable. Edelweiss Air operates all of its flights under a codeshare with owner Swiss International Air Lines, mainly targeting leisure traffic. Swiss already offers a daily schedule between Zurich and Tokyo.

The cancellation of this service has enabled Edelweiss Air to redeploy the Airbus A330-200 that was planned to serve the route and this will now be used to fly a weekly link from Zurich to Orlando between July 2 and September 10.

Schedule:

WK002/LX8002 ZRH1705 – 2125MCO 332 6
WK003/LX8003 MCO2315 – 1430+1ZRH 332 6

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.