A partnership between Switzerland’s national airline SWISS and the federal railways (SBB), which combines train and air travel into a single booking, is offering a new destination: Grindelwald.
The airline and the national railway are further expanding their Air Rail offering by adding a popular tourist destination – Grindelwald – to the list of their destinations.
“In collaboration with SBB and Jungfrau Railways, international air travellers can now reach the heart of the Bernese Alps even more easily,” the airline said.
“The new connection is available – and tickets can be booked – from March 27th, 2026.
With this addition, the SWISS Air Rail network now comprises 25 destinations in Switzerland and abroad.
They are – in addition to Grindelwald – the cities of Basel, Bellinzona, Bern, Brig, Fribourg, Geneva, Interlaken, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Montreux, Sierre, Sion, Vevey and Visp.
Graubünden capital Chur, as well as popular Alpine resorts in that canton – Davos, Klosters, and St. Moritz – are also part of the system.
Additionally, this flight and train ticket combo covers two foreign stations as well: Munich in Germany and Bregenz in Austria, which are connected to Zurich airport.
SWISS Air Rail Network
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How can you benefit from this system?
The service was first launched in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, when 10 daily flights between Zurich and Geneva airports dwindled to just two, and trains were put into service instead between the two hubs.
This is how it works: if you want to take a train from one of the above cities to the Zurich or Geneva Airport, you no longer have to buy a train ticket and a plane ticket separately.
Instead, you only need to make one booking with SWISS for the entire journey by train and plane.
You can do so through this link on the airline’s website, choosing in what class you want to travel on the train and plane.
“When embarking on the journey, the traveller needs to check-in only once, and will then be issued with their boarding pass (which includes their rail ticket) directly from SWISS,” the airline said.
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