The NZZ Folio team spent a year following "Swiss" flight LX14 from Zürich to New York from its earliest preparations through its landing. For once this story and all the columns can here be read in English too. For more English articles in older issues of NZZ Folio click here.

Editorial
In flight.
By Benno Maggi

Part 1: Two hundred tonnes take off
Commander Luciano Covolan is in charge of the Airbus A 330-300. He won’t just fly his passengers to New York; he can have them apprehended if necessary.
 
Part 2: Lunch over London
Soon after taking off, the flight is transformed into a restaurant racing through the air. The gourmet eatery is at the front, the bistro section in the rear.

Part 3: The transatlantic highway
LX 14 crosses the ocean on one of 63 possible routes. In Business Class, the ­travellers slumber in seats that cost as much as a mid-range car.
 
Part 4: Where time stands still
Over Canada it’s the same time on board as it was on take-off from Zurich. Our ­inner clock reacts with jet lag, though, which even the professionals can’t avoid.

Part 5: Big Apple ahead
Just before landing the autopilot is disengaged. The Manhattan skyline can be seen from the cockpit; dangerous flocks of birds are thankfully absent from the scene. 

Text by Lukas Egli, Anja Jardine, Mikael Krogerus, Benno Maggi, Gudrun Sachse, Reto U. Schneider and Daniel Weber.

The columns

At the hairdresser’s
That wonderful “I’m off” feeling.
By Stefanie Hopp

Notes from the nose
At the dragon zoo.
By Luca Turin

Elemental
First-class slumbers.
By Jeroen van Rooijen

Brain teaser
Pinpoint landing.
By CUS

Tech talk
Overheard on the flight line.
By Lukas Egli

Contoured
Saint-Exupéry: pilot, poet, pioneer.
By Wolf Schneider

Dining delights
Of hay and kerosene.
By Andreas Heller

Who lives here?
The basket man.
By Gudrun Sachse

The experiment
Do bees get jet lag?
By Reto U. Schneider