“We continue to invest consistently in such sustainable solutions,” said CEO Dieter Vranckx, the Belgian who was CEO of Brussels Airlines until 2020, in a press release.
It is a transparent film around the body of the device. In this way, the air resistance is considerably smaller, Swiss already announced in February. The technology makes a flight 1 percent more fuel efficient.
The technology was developed by Lufthansa Technik, the maintenance arm of parent company Lufthansa, and the German chemical giant BASF. The film is actually a kind of replica of a shark’s skin. Swiss will equip all 12 Boeing 777s with the ‘hydrodynamic’ skin.