A partnership between Switzerland’s national airline SWISS and the federal railways (SBB), which combines train and air travel into a single booking, is offering new connections.
From October 27th, SWISS and SBB will add cities of St. Gallen, Konstanz, and Locarno to their Air Rail network, via Zurich Airport.
“This expansion brings the total number of Air Rail destinations to 24 and makes connecting between train and plane even easier for travellers,” the two companies said in a joint press release.
They are the cities of Basel, Bellinzona, Bern, Brig, Fribourg, Geneva, Interlaken, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Montreux, Sierre, Sion, Vevey and Visp.
Graubünden capital Chur, as well as popular Alpine resorts in that canton – Davos, Klosters, and St. Moritz – are also part of the system.
Additionally, this flight and train ticket combo covers two foreign stations as well: Munich in Germany and Bregenz in Austria, which are connected to Zurich airport.
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How can you benefit from this system?
The service was first launched in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, when 10 daily flights between Zurich and Geneva airports dwindled to just two, and trains were put into service instead between the two hubs.
This is how it works: if you want to take a train from one of the above cities to the Zurich or Geneva Airport, you no longer have to buy a train ticket and a plane ticket separately.
Instead, you only need to make one booking with SWISS for the entire journey by train and plane.
You can do so through this link on the airline’s website, choosing in what class you want to travel on the train and plane.
“When embarking on the journey, the traveller needs to check-in only once, and will then be issued with their boarding pass (which includes their rail ticket) directly from SWISS,” the airline said.
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