Titlis Ice Flyer

Mt Titlis is known for its rotating cable car. The rotating car taking 40 minutes to complete the trip with the last throw over the jagged cliffs of deep permanent glacier ice a five-minute ride making a 360 degree turn.

The Ice Flyer is a special chair lift for views that glide over the glacial ice’s crevasse crags. The Ice Flyer takes tourists to Titlis Glacier Park and makes free use of snow tubes, ice balancer scooters and single passenger snow bobs. The sun terrace on top of the Visitor Center offers breathtaking views.

The Mt Titlis summit is the highest point in central Switzerland, at 10,000 feet, during the sunny warmer months. Renting a mountain bike in the summer, or a rare local “Trotti Bike,” with fat tires and no pedals-was intended to ride down the dry ski trails for a wild excitement.

The complete journey by train from Lucerne and cable car ride to the top of Mt. Titlis takes about 5 hours as a day excursion from Lucerne, so allow a full day. Visitors can stay over in Engelberg and lodge their activity options in Engelberg rail station tourist office for more relaxed trip. 

The Ice Flyer chair lift sweeps you over crisp, virgin snow fields and frozen depths, effortlessly and securely. Some of the crevasses have a depth of up to 20 metres. You can expect such a wonderful glacier experience on TITLIS only.

The Ice Flyer takes you and your snow-lovers from the mountain station to the TITLIS glacier park in the summer months. The chair lift takes you through the fabulous ski pistes of the summit in winter.

The cost for the Mt Titlis Rotair aerial cable is 92 CHF for an adult round trip, half-price for one way (ski or bike down). The Ice Flyer chair lift and the Glacier Cave are included while the Glacier Park is an extra charge. The cost is half-price with a Swiss Pass or a 25% discount with Eurail Pass including Switzerland. Children under 6 are free and under 16 free when traveling with a parent with a Swiss Pass or Swiss Family Card. The first cable car up from Engelberg is 8:30 am the last car down from the Mt. Titlis station is 4:50 pm. The cable house on the Engelberg valley floor is a quarter mile from the train station. Take the shuttle bus, or the walk is 10 minutes. If taking the train from Lucerne, the train splits at Obermatt with only the cog train section going up the steep grade to Engelberg, so make sure you get on the right cars.

OPENING TIMES

Due to maintenance work on the cableways, the Ice Flyer chair lift will be closed from 25 May – 4 June 2021.