PrivatAir took delivery of a BBJ2 late last year and on January 16 started operating a business-class daily round-trip link between Zurich and Newark on behalf of Swiss International Air Lines. The aircraft is equipped with 56 widely spaced lie-flat seats, each fitted with a laptop connection. Although the airline announced the service as a code-share flight, tickets are available only through Swiss’ sales system.
Geneva-based PrivatAir already operates similar services for Lufthansa. Those services currently include Düsseldorf to Chicago and Newark links with two
48-seat Airbus A319s, and a Munich to Newark service with a BBJ. The company launched the Düsseldorf to Newark link in June 2002. Since May 2003, the company has operated an executive shuttle service with two 126-seat A319s for Airbus between the manufacturer’s plants in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; and Filton, UK.
