Swiss International Airlines question—London to Zurich travel

It is more commonly known as "SWISS".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_International_Air_Lines

No personal experience, but no recollection of reading horror stories about them.

If you travel with carryons just make sure you check the Swiss Air dimension limits. They’ve gotten quite small. They do enforce them and made us gate check our carryons between Zurich and Venice even though there was no problem with them on our Swiss international flight. No other problems with them last month.

I have flown with them several times in the last few years and have no complaints.

We fly between London and Zurich with British Airlines. We like that we can use London City Airport instead of Heathrow if we choose; the airport is smaller, more relaxed, and easy to get to from central London using the DLR (Docklands Light Rail).

No complaints on Swiss inter-Europe, and I definitely prefer them for transatlantic flights.

Thanks everyone! We feel much more informed now and will look at Swiss and British Airways (with its option to leave from London city airport which sounds easier).

We flew from City Airport to Zurich on BA this past June. The airport is so much easier than dealing with LHR. Its a easy quick trip into Zurich. On our return we went from Zurich to LHR the night before our flight back to the US on Swiss Air. No complaints at all. Just check on the carry on size for both BA and Swiss. We decided to "check in" our American size checked luggage.

It will really come down to price and your preferred schedule. BTW Swiss came into Terminal 2 at LHR and I can recall it being a very long way to walk through the arrival halls to get to the trains. We were staying at Premier Inn Terminal 4 for the overnight stay.

A nice thing about British Airways is their carry-on size is larger than most other airlines—-56 cm instead of 55 cm. That means a 22 inch bag is OK, while for most others you need a 21 inch.