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August 23, 2011
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- The Gotthard Base Tunnel will be open to rail traffic a year ahead of schedule
- The entry into service is scheduled for December 2016
 The Gotthard Base Tunnel will be open to rail traffic in December 2016, a year ahead of schedule. They announced the Federal Office of Transport FOT Helvetic, the Swiss railway SBB CFF FFS Group and its subsidiary AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd (ATG), a company that is responsible for the construction of new rail routes along the Gotthard.
- The early entry into service in 2016 - stressed FOT, and ATG SBB CFF FFS - will benefit from a year earlier than expected benefits of the railroad flat, a line that will, inter alia to reduce travel time in traffic passengers between the German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino and Italy and to increase the productivity in freight traffic by providing an important contribution to the transfer of freight traffic in transit of the Alps from road to rail.
- SBB CFF FFS stated that the provision of freight and passenger trains will be valid from December 2016 established two years before the entry into service during the usual procedure of defining the official timetable of 2014 and that date will be confirmed definitively deadline for entry into service. In particular, based on the completion of the base tunnel Ash and work progress on the access routes to the north and south of the Gotthard you can decide when to move in the Gotthard Base Tunnel is the maximum number of trains at seven ' hour, per direction currently planned.
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