Around 12:30pm, the Swiss First Lounge check-in agent came to get me for my transfer to the D gates.
Despite it being an earlier flight, I opted for the LCY departure since the airport was more centrally located and significantly smaller, which would mean less time waiting at the airport.īoarding was scheduled for 12:35pm, 40 minutes before our departure time. My options were to either fly from London's Heathrow Airport (LHR) at 8:40am or London City Airport 50 minutes earlier at 7:50am. I started my trip at London City Airport (LCY), then I connected in Zurich (ZRH) and flew from there to Los Angeles (LAX) aboard the 777-300ER. For more details about my booking process for this trip, check out my review of Swiss' Airbus A340. For my return trip, this time from Zurich to Los Angeles, I booked myself a flight in Swiss' newly updated first-class product aboard the Boeing 777-300ER.
(All photos are by the author).Īfter recently flying in first class from San Francisco to Zurich aboard Swiss' old Airbus A340, I'd gotten a good sense of the carrier's overall soft product. got a chance to test out Swiss' brand new Boeing 777-300ER first-class product on a flight from Zurich to Los Angeles (LAX). Following a brief connecting flight from London City Airport (LCY) to Zurich (ZRH), TPG Contributor J.P.
