Leisure specialist Edelweiss Air, a Lufthansa Group subsidiary headquartered in Zurich, has overhauled its South-Asia network for the winter season beginning 26 October 2025. The carrier discontinues its triangular Zurich–Colombo–Male routing and instead splits the service into dedicated non-stop flights: Colombo increases from one to two weekly Airbus A340 sectors, while Male rises from two to three weekly non-stops.
The move follows a 28 % rise in point-to-point demand from Sri Lanka’s diaspora community in Switzerland and a surge in Swiss tour-operator packages to the Maldives. By dropping the tag-stop, Edelweiss trims block times by almost two hours per sector, improving aircraft utilisation and on-time performance.
For mobility managers the change delivers clearer arrival times for assignees headed to Sri Lanka’s fast-growing IT-services hub and to Maldivian resort projects funded by Swiss investors. However, the schedule split reduces same-plane connectivity between the two Indian-Ocean destinations, requiring travellers to route via hubs such as Doha or Dubai when combining both countries in a single trip.
The move follows a 28 % rise in point-to-point demand from Sri Lanka’s diaspora community in Switzerland and a surge in Swiss tour-operator packages to the Maldives. By dropping the tag-stop, Edelweiss trims block times by almost two hours per sector, improving aircraft utilisation and on-time performance.
For mobility managers the change delivers clearer arrival times for assignees headed to Sri Lanka’s fast-growing IT-services hub and to Maldivian resort projects funded by Swiss investors. However, the schedule split reduces same-plane connectivity between the two Indian-Ocean destinations, requiring travellers to route via hubs such as Doha or Dubai when combining both countries in a single trip.
