20% more holiday destinations: Edelweiss massively expands its route network for summer 2018
Edelweiss, Switzerland's leading leisure airline, is expanding its route network by over 20% next year, offering 11 new destinations. In addition to new long-haul destinations such as Orlando, Denver, and Varadero, eight additional dream destinations will be served on short- and medium-haul routes.
Edelweiss' route network will be expanded from 51 to 62 destinations by next summer, offering guests even more choice of dream destinations for the most wonderful time of the year. The route expansion at a glance:
New long-haul destinations for varied holidays
Edelweiss is expanding its North American offerings in 2018. With Orlando, another vacation destination in Florida will be served, which is particularly attractive for lovers of theme parks and spectacular leisure activities and can be combined with Tampa Bay in Florida. Edelweiss also flies its guests directly to Denver, at the gateway to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. For beach vacation lovers, Varadero will be added to Cuba, a further vacation destination that can be perfectly combined with Havana.
Orlando/USA: 1x weekly, year-round (from January 16, 2018); Denver/USA: 2x weekly, June to September (from June 4, 2018); Varadero/Cuba: 1x weekly, year-round (from July 16, 2018)
New short- and medium-haul holiday destinations in the 2018 summer flight schedule
Edelweiss is expanding its short- and medium-haul offerings and is offering new holiday destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Tunisia, Croatia, Spain and Scotland:
Djerba/Tunisia: 1x weekly, March to November; Paphos/Cyprus: 1x weekly, April to October; Chania/Greece: 1x weekly, April to October; Dubrovnik/Croatia: 2x weekly, April to October; Samos/Greece: 1x weekly, May to October; Inverness/Scotland: 1x weekly, July to August; Jerez de la Frontera/Spain: 1x weekly, July to October
New full-charter destination in cooperation with Kontiki as of the 2018 summer flight schedule
Svalbard/Norway: 28 July 2018/7 August 2018/19 August 2018
Frequency increases in the 2018 summer flight schedule
Edelweiss will also be flying to popular holiday destinations more frequently in summer 2018, offering more flexibility for personal holiday planning.
| Vancouver/Canada | up to 4 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Punta Cana/Dominican Republic | up to 3 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Marsa Alam/Egypt | up to 2x weekly | new also in summer |
| Antalya/Türkiye | up to 7 times a week | +2 flights/week |
| Larnaca/Cyprus | up to 8 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Heraklion/Greece | up to 8 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Kos/Greece | up to 4 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Zakynthos/Greece | up to 2x weekly | +1 flight/week |
| Pristina/Kosovo | up to 14 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Catania/Italy | up to 7 times a week | +2 flights/week |
| Cagliari/Italy | up to 4 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Olbia/Italy | up to 6 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Ibiza/Spain | up to 7 times a week | +1 flight/week |
| Edinburgh/Scotland | up to 4 times a week | +1 flight/week |
All flights can now be booked at flyedelweiss.com and all usual sales channels.