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United is adding more than 60 mainline flights per week at its Denver hub, the latest step in an effort to capture more connecting traffic over the mid-continent gateway. The carrier will restructure its schedule at Denver International airport on Thursday as part of a process known as "rebanking". The move will see more arriving and departing flights clustered together in defined "banks", with the busiest bank at roughly 09:00 handling 57 mainline flights. The process will see United add more flights from Denver, already its fastest-growing hub. It will operate an average of 420 daily departures from the airport during the week after 14 February, compared to an average of 376 daily departures a year prior, FlightGlobal schedules data shows. "Rebanking provides enhanced flexibility for our customers and increases connection opportunities which ultimately provides greater access to more destinations," the airline said of the new schedule in a newsletter to pilots on 6 February. The new schedule includes 64 additional weekly mainline flights, it adds. The changes in Denver are just the latest piece of United's mid-continent hub strategy. Since January 2018, the carrier has accelerated domestic capacity growth with a focus on adding connections over its hubs in Chicago, Denver and Houston to capture what its executives see as its "natural share" of the US market.<br/>

SWISS will expand its Geneva-based short-haul fleet by adding three A220s, for a total of 10 aircraft—comprising seven A220-300s and three -100s—by June 2019. The fleet expansion became necessary with the addition of six previously announced summer destinations and the introduction of up to nine daily SWISS-operated flights from Geneva to Lufthansa’s main hubs of Frankfurt and Munich. From March 31 until Oct. 26, SWISS will operate 5X-daily Geneva-Munich services. Flights to and from Frankfurt will be partly operated by Lufthansa, for a total of 4X-daily services with SWISS aircraft and 4X-daily with Lufthansa planes.<br/>