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Swiss will stop most flights to the United States from tomorrow Saturday.
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Only check-in for New York and Chicago remains possible at Swiss.
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Tourist destinations like Lucerne will not only miss tourists from China, but also from the United States.
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Swiss passengers can only fly back to Switzerland via New York and Chicago.
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The USA will close the doors to Europeans, including the Swiss, as of Friday night due to the corona virus. The airlines, tourism and export companies are getting more under the wheel for the time being due to the immigration ban for 30 days. Piquant: The US President unilaterally and without consultation passed this drastic measure, which EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (61) promptly criticized.
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In the United States, anyone who has been in the 26 Schengen countries for the past two weeks is undesirable. This does not apply to US citizens, diplomats and flight personnel.
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Export industry relies on Swiss passenger aircraft
As a result, Swiss will cancel flights from Zurich to Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Washington D.C. from Saturday. The Geneva-New York connection will also be cut for the time being. Swiss also flies from Zurich to New York and Chicago. Swiss citizens who want to return have to change there.
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Swiss only announced on Wednesday that it would cancel around 4,300 European flights by April 24, especially to Italy. The tour operators Hotelplan and DER Touristik offer affected customers free cancellations.
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The failure of most Swiss connections to the USA also affects the Swiss export industry hard, says the director of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Martin Naville (60), to BLICK. Because the pharmaceutical and high-tech industries mainly sell sensitive products to the United States, they would mostly be transported in the cargo hold of the passenger plane. If the US entry freeze were extended, it would really hurt the economy, he estimates.
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Now is the primary booking time for US tourists
According to Naville, the worst hit is tourism. The United States is the second most important foreign market for Swiss tourism after Germany with almost 2.5 million overnight stays (2019). “The US flight stop comes at the worst possible moment,” says a Switzerland tourism spokesman. Right now the booking phase for the main travel months would be May and June. Even before the US stop, Switzerland Tourism expected a loss of half a billion in sales.
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Reader reporter – US entry banAre you affected by the US entry ban? Has your flight been canceled or are you currently in America and don’t know if you can go home? Then get in touch with us!
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