{"id":16320,"date":"2025-11-10T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=16320"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:05:34","slug":"edelweiss-did-not-start-flights-from-zurich-to-sri-lanka-for-the-first-time-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/edelweiss-did-not-start-flights-from-zurich-to-sri-lanka-for-the-first-time-recently\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Edelweiss Airlines recently commence flights from Zurich, Switzerland, to Colombo for the first time in history?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Some major media platforms reported that an Edelweiss Airlines flight arrived in Sri Lanka for the first time in history. This is a fact-check we did to assess the accuracy of these claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A mainstream media outlet has published a post stating, \u201cEdelweiss Airlines has commenced flights to Sri Lanka from Zurich, Switzerland for the first time in history\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many other social media posts regarding this were published through Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We took steps to verify whether Swiss airline Edelweiss had indeed started flights from Zurich to Sri Lanka for the first time in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to archived records from the Airline industry forums, it appears that Edelweiss Air, Switzerland’s leading leisure airline and a sister company of Swiss International Air Lines, operated flights to Bandaranaike International Airport via Male way back in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, to get more concrete evidence, we checked the official releases from Edelweiss Air. We found a media advertisement they published in 2017 stating that they\u2019d launch flights to Sri Lanka in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, local media reports and other online articles also indicated that Edelweiss Airlines will offer seasonal flights between Zurich and Colombo from November 3, 2018. These articles further note that an Edelweiss Airbus A340-300 aircraft would fly twice a week, connecting Zurich and Colombo, and that the new connection will allow Swiss and other European travellers to reach Sri Lanka with ease and comfort. You can refer to those reports from here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official Facebook page of the Swiss Embassy for Sri Lanka and the Maldives also posted a Facebook post about the first direct flight between Switzerland and Sri Lanka on November 4, 2018, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n