Swiss International Airlines’ new Chief Commercial Officer Heike Birlenbach wants to reduce the number of leased flights from Helvetic Airways and Air Baltic. This practice, referred to in technical jargon as 'wet leasing', currently accounts for around a third of SWISS summer flights in Europe. "We currently have a large number of wet lease aircraft...

More than 60% of people with long Covid have been refused support by invalidity insurance. According to the CH Media Group, more than 5,000 people have applied for support due to the consequences of Covid since 2021. To date, 3.6% of the people concerned have received support from the invalidity insurance, according to an initial assessment by the Federal...

On Friday, Switzerland abstained from the vote at the General Assembly on granting the Palestinians new rights at the United Nations (UN). This position is in line with Switzerland's abstention at the UN Security Council in April on full membership for Palestine, the foreign ministry points out. Friday's vote was based on the view that the resolution...

Nestlé wants to manufacture more Nescafé products in Brazil in the future. According to a report by the Reuters news agency, the company is investing one billion reais (CHF176 million) in production capacity there by 2026. Nestlé expects sales of the Nescafé brand in the Brazilian retail trade to grow by up to 15% per year over the next four years,...

Newly identified cells in abdominal fat inhibit the formation of new fat cells. This discovery could be valuable for the treatment of obesity, as a Swiss research team wrote in a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism. The cell population in abdominal fat identified by the researchers led by Bart Deplancke from the Swiss Federal Institute of...

The 24-hour procedure for asylum applications from North African countries with no prospect of success at the Federal Asylum Centre in Zurich has proved its worth, according to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). Applications from these countries fell by 40% in the first half of the year since the procedure was introduced. Since the end of April,...