Vueling to Add Amsterdam – Zürich

Vueling Airlines is to launch a connection to Zürich from its new Amsterdam base in September. The confirmation of the route follows just weeks after the low-cost carrier introduced flights to the Swiss city from Barcelona and Santiago. The Barcelona link was opened on March 27 and is being operated twice every weekday and once at weekends, while Santiago is being served three times per week, increasing to five rotations between July and mid-September.

The new Amsterdam route will be introduced from September 14 on a five times weekly basis and Vueling expects to attract a good mix of business and leisure traffic. Swiss International Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines already serve the route, offering 70 weekly frequencies between them. In the past year around 161,000 O&D passengers travelled between the two cities, with Swiss accounting for 53 per cent of this traffic. KLM’s yield on the route is stronger, with average fares around 15 per cent higher than its rival, but Vueling’s introduction could impact this.

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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.