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Swissair
defunctKey Facts: Swissair
- Swissair was established in Switzerland.
- The airline is defunct and no longer operates flight services.
- Aviation authorities assigned IATA code LX and ICAO code SWR.
- Air traffic control utilized the radio callsign Swissair.
- Operations were founded in 1931.
- The carrier ceased flight operations on 2002-03-31.
- Recorded fate: Grounded and succeeded by Swiss International Air Lines.
- Observed registry airframe records document 107 aircraft.
- Primary operational hubs included LSZH, LSGG.
- Operates a scheduled route network connecting 103 catalogued commercial destinations.
Carrier Identity & Specifications
| Legal / Trading Name | Swissair |
|---|---|
| Operating Status | defunct Source: curated_defunct_registry |
| Country of Registry | Switzerland |
| IATA Two-Letter Code | LX |
| ICAO Three-Letter Code | SWR |
| Telephony Callsign | Swissair |
| Founded | 1931 |
| Ceased Operations | 2002-03-31 |
| Operational Lifespan | 71 years (1931 to 2002) |
| Operational Hubs | LSZH, LSGG |
Observed Fleet Data
Observed registry records account for 107 aircraft as of 2026-10-08.
Corporate Resolution & Lineage
Resolution / Fate: Grounded and succeeded by Swiss International Air Lines
Succeeded by: swiss-international-air-lines
Route Network & Served Destinations
Scheduled flight network and destination directory for Swissair.
103 Destinations
103 Airports Served
50 Countries Reached
145 Direct Flight Pairs
2 Primary Bases / Hubs
Primary Hub / Base Airport
Served Destination Airport
Direct Flight Route
| Code | Airport Name | City / Region | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMS EHAM | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 52.31N, 4.76E |
| AYT LTAI | Antalya International Airport | Antalya | Turkey | 36.90N, 30.80E |
| ACE GCRR | Lanzarote Airport | Arrecife | Spain | 28.95N, 13.61W |
| ATH LGAV | Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport | Athens | Greece | 37.94N, 23.94E |
| BAH OBBI | Bahrain International Airport | Bahrain | Bahrain | 26.27N, 50.63E |
| BKK VTBS | Suvarnabhumi Airport | Bangkok | Thailand | 13.68N, 100.75E |
| BCN LEBL | Barcelona International Airport | Barcelona | Spain | 41.30N, 2.08E |
| PEK ZBAA | Beijing Capital International Airport | Beijing | China | 40.08N, 116.58E |
| BEG LYBE | Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport | Belgrade | Serbia | 44.82N, 20.31E |
| TXL EDDT | Berlin-Tegel Airport | Berlin | Germany | 52.56N, 13.29E |
| BHX EGBB | Birmingham International Airport | Birmingham | United Kingdom | 52.45N, 1.75W |
| BOS KBOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | 42.36N, 71.00W |
| BRU EBBR | Brussels Airport | Brussels | Belgium | 50.90N, 4.48E |
| OTP LROP | Henri Coandă International Airport | Bucharest | Romania | 44.57N, 26.09E |
| BUD LHBP | Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport | Budapest | Hungary | 47.43N, 19.26E |
| CAI HECA | Cairo International Airport | Cairo | Egypt | 30.12N, 31.41E |
| CTA LICC | Catania-Fontanarossa Airport | Catania | Italy | 37.47N, 15.07E |
| ORD KORD | Chicago O'Hare International Airport | Chicago | United States | 41.98N, 87.91W |
| CGN EDDK | Cologne Bonn Airport | Cologne | Germany | 50.87N, 7.14E |
| CPH EKCH | Copenhagen Kastrup Airport | Copenhagen | Denmark | 55.62N, 12.66E |
| DAR HTDA | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar Es Salaam | Tanzania | 6.88S, 39.20E |
| DEL VIDP | Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi | India | 28.57N, 77.10E |
| DOH OTHH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | 25.27N, 51.61E |
| DLA FKKD | Douala International Airport | Douala | Cameroon | 4.01N, 9.72E |
| DXB OMDB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 25.25N, 55.36E |
| DUB EIDW | Dublin Airport | Dublin | Ireland | 53.42N, 6.27W |
| DBV LDDU | Dubrovnik Airport | Dubrovnik | Croatia | 42.56N, 18.27E |
| DUS EDDL | Düsseldorf Airport | Duesseldorf | Germany | 51.29N, 6.77E |
| FLR LIRQ | Peretola Airport | Florence | Italy | 43.81N, 11.21E |
| FRA EDDF | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 50.03N, 8.57E |
| FUE GCFV | Fuerteventura Airport | Fuerteventura | Spain | 28.45N, 13.86W |
| FNC LPMA | Madeira Airport | Funchal | Portugal | 32.70N, 16.77W |
| GVA LSGG | Geneva Cointrin International Airport | Geneva | Switzerland | 46.24N, 6.11E |
| LPA GCLP | Gran Canaria Airport | Gran Canaria | Spain | 27.93N, 15.39W |
| HAM EDDH | Hamburg Airport | Hamburg | Germany | 53.63N, 9.99E |
| HAJ EDDV | Hannover Airport | Hannover | Germany | 52.46N, 9.69E |
| HAV MUHA | José Martí International Airport | Havana | Cuba | 22.99N, 82.41W |
| HER LGIR | Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport | Heraklion | Greece | 35.34N, 25.18E |
| HKG VHHH | Hong Kong International Airport | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 22.31N, 113.92E |
| HRG HEGN | Hurghada International Airport | Hurghada | Egypt | 27.18N, 33.80E |
| IST LTFM | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 41.27N, 28.75E |
| JNB FAOR | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 26.14S, 28.25E |
| KBP UKBB | Boryspil International Airport | Kiev | Ukraine | 50.34N, 30.89E |
| LCA LCLK | Larnaca International Airport | Larnaca | Cyprus | 34.88N, 33.63E |
| LAS KLAS | McCarran International Airport | Las Vegas | United States | 36.08N, 115.15W |
| LIS LPPT | Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) | Lisbon | Portugal | 38.78N, 9.14W |
| LJU LJLJ | Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport | Ljubljana | Slovenia | 46.22N, 14.46E |
| LCY EGLC | London City Airport | London | United Kingdom | 51.51N, 0.06E |
| LHR EGLL | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | 51.47N, 0.46W |
| LAX KLAX | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles | United States | 33.94N, 118.41W |
| LUG LSZA | Lugano Airport | Lugano | Switzerland | 46.00N, 8.91E |
| LUX ELLX | Luxembourg-Findel International Airport | Luxemburg | Luxembourg | 49.62N, 6.20E |
| LYS LFLL | Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport | Lyon | France | 45.73N, 5.08E |
| MAD LEMD | Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport | Madrid | Spain | 40.47N, 3.56W |
| AGP LEMG | Málaga Airport | Malaga | Spain | 36.67N, 4.50W |
| MLA LMML | Malta International Airport | Malta | Malta | 35.86N, 14.48E |
| MAN EGCC | Manchester Airport | Manchester | United Kingdom | 53.35N, 2.27W |
| RAK GMMX | Menara Airport | Marrakech | Morocco | 31.61N, 8.04W |
| RMF HEMA | Marsa Alam International Airport | Marsa Alam | Egypt | 25.56N, 34.58E |
| MIA KMIA | Miami International Airport | Miami | United States | 25.79N, 80.29W |
| LIN LIML | Milano Linate Airport | Milan | Italy | 45.45N, 9.28E |
| MXP LIMC | Malpensa International Airport | Milano | Italy | 45.63N, 8.73E |
| YUL CYUL | Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport | Montreal | Canada | 45.47N, 73.74W |
| DME UUDD | Domodedovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | 55.41N, 37.91E |
| BSL LFSB | EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport | Mulhouse | France | 47.59N, 7.53E |
| BOM VABB | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai | India | 19.09N, 72.87E |
| MUC EDDM | Munich Airport | Munich | Germany | 48.35N, 11.79E |
| NBO HKJK | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | 1.32S, 36.93E |
| JFK KJFK | John F Kennedy International Airport | New York | United States | 40.64N, 73.78W |
| EWR KEWR | Newark Liberty International Airport | Newark | United States | 40.69N, 74.17W |
| NCE LFMN | Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport | Nice | France | 43.66N, 7.22E |
| NUE EDDN | Nuremberg Airport | Nuernberg | Germany | 49.50N, 11.08E |
| OLB LIEO | Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport | Olbia | Italy | 40.90N, 9.52E |
| OSL ENGM | Oslo Lufthavn | Oslo | Norway | 60.12N, 11.05E |
| PMI LEPA | Palma De Mallorca Airport | Palma de Mallorca | Spain | 39.55N, 2.74E |
| CDG LFPG | Charles de Gaulle International Airport | Paris | France | 49.01N, 2.55E |
| OPO LPPR | Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport | Porto | Portugal | 41.25N, 8.68W |
| PRG LKPR | Václav Havel Airport Prague | Prague | Czech Republic | 50.10N, 14.26E |
| PRN BKPR | Priština International Airport | Pristina | Serbia | 42.57N, 21.04E |
| PUJ MDPC | Punta Cana International Airport | Punta Cana | Dominican Republic | 18.57N, 68.36W |
| FCO LIRF | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport | Rome | Italy | 41.80N, 12.24E |
| SFO KSFO | San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco | United States | 37.62N, 122.38W |
| GRU SBGR | Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 23.44S, 46.47W |
| PVG ZSPD | Shanghai Pudong International Airport | Shanghai | China | 31.14N, 121.81E |
| SIN WSSS | Singapore Changi Airport | Singapore | Singapore | 1.35N, 103.99E |
| SKP LWSK | Skopje Alexander the Great Airport | Skopje | Macedonia | 41.96N, 21.62E |
| SPU LDSP | Split Airport | Split | Croatia | 43.54N, 16.30E |
| LED ULLI | Pulkovo Airport | St. Petersburg | Russia | 59.80N, 30.26E |
| ARN ESSA | Stockholm-Arlanda Airport | Stockholm | Sweden | 59.65N, 17.92E |
| STR EDDS | Stuttgart Airport | Stuttgart | Germany | 48.69N, 9.22E |
| TPA KTPA | Tampa International Airport | Tampa | United States | 27.98N, 82.53W |
| TLV LLBG | Ben Gurion International Airport | Tel-aviv | Israel | 32.01N, 34.89E |
| TFS GCTS | Tenerife South Airport | Tenerife | Spain | 28.05N, 16.57W |
| NRT RJAA | Narita International Airport | Tokyo | Japan | 35.77N, 140.39E |
| YYZ CYYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | Canada | 43.68N, 79.63W |
| VLC LEVC | Valencia Airport | Valencia | Spain | 39.49N, 0.48W |
| VCE LIPZ | Venice Marco Polo Airport | Venice | Italy | 45.51N, 12.35E |
| VIE LOWW | Vienna International Airport | Vienna | Austria | 48.11N, 16.57E |
| WAW EPWA | Warsaw Chopin Airport | Warsaw | Poland | 52.17N, 20.97E |
| IAD KIAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | 38.94N, 77.46W |
| NSI FKYS | Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport | Yaounde | Cameroon | 3.72N, 11.55E |
| ZAG LDZA | Zagreb Airport | Zagreb | Croatia | 45.74N, 16.07E |
| ZRH LSZH | Zürich Airport | Zurich | Switzerland | 47.47N, 8.55E |
News Mentioning Swissair
Data Provenance & Audit Trail
- Seed Source: Civil aviation registry baseline (OpenFlights / ICAO / Wikidata CC0).
- Observed Fleet: Observation logs as of 2026-10-08.
- Operational Status: Audited under rule pipeline (curated_defunct_registry).
- Last Pipeline Build: 2026-10-08.