SWISS is substantially reducing its current fuel surcharges, as it
undertook to do in previous communications. The action is being taken
in view of the decline in the prices of crude oil and jet fuel over the
last few weeks, and despite the fact that average fuel prices for 2008
are still substantially above their levels of a year ago.
The
SWISS fuel surcharge for long-haul flights will be reduced by CHF 26 to
CHF 144 per sector; and SWISS’s fuel surcharge for European flights
(which include services to Cairo and Tel Aviv) will be lowered by CHF 9
to CHF 36 per sector.
In effecting these reductions, SWISS is keeping
to the commitment it made in June to revoke its two latest fuel
surcharge increases if the price of crude oil remained below USD 120
per barrel* for a 28-day period.
The new lower fuel surcharges
will apply to all tickets for air travel originating in Switzerland
which are issued from October 22 onwards.
