
Lufthansa Group’s leisure airline, Edelweiss (operated by SWISS), touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on Monday and was welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute.

Edelweiss will now offer twice weekly summer seasonal service between SEA and Switzerland’s Zurich Airport (ZRH) on an Airbus A340-300 with 314 seats across three classes.
Edelweiss Business Class has 27 fully lie-flat seats. Economy Max includes 76 seats and there are 211 seats in Economy Class.
With this new flight, travelers can now travel from Seattle to Munich, Frankfurt and Zurich on Lufthansa Group flights.
SEA recently welcomed back SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) for flights between Seattle and Copenhagen after a ‘pause’ of 16 years and celebrated Alaska Airlines’ new flights on Hawaiian Airlines to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. So it’s been pretty busy around here.
But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a proper celebration for Edelweiss.
In addition to short celebratory speeches and a ribbon cutting, travelers waiting for the flight to depart were treated to a tasty snack of chocolate-covered pretzel sticks.

(Bernd Bauer, CEO of Edelweiss Air, with Lufthansa Group and SEA executives).
