Europe Continental Airways (the official name of Swiss’ French Subsiduary) will retire it’s two remaining Saab 340B’s (F-GPKD and F-GPKG) at the end of the month, and will replace them with two Saab 2000’s (currently registered as HB-IZI and HB-IZJ) that are being retired by parent company Swiss.
IZI is currently in full Swiss livery, while IZJ is still in the old Crossair colour scheme.
They will continue to operate flights on behalf of Swiss from BSL to THF, MUC and DUS.
However, there’s a rumour that the reason no additional flights from BSL are being passed on to the low cost subsiduary is due to a veto from Aeropers, the former Swissair’s Pilot Union.
Although why a Pilots Union of a company in the red would be against having flights operated by a lower cost fully owned subsiduary is a bit of a mystery… :rolleyes:
By: Airline owner - 20th March 2004 at 08:06
Crossair.
By: Bhoy - 20th March 2004 at 04:23
whose? QE’s? still 2 aircraft. LX’s? well, no one seems to really know… they’ve been leasing out Embraers left right and centre, but they’ve just received the two jetmagic planes back after they went bust, and apparently they’ve been painted back in LX colours… so whether or not LX has decided to keep the spare capacity, I dunno… :confused: (although, to be fair, going on past form, they probably don’t have a clue themselves, muppets that they are… :rolleyes: )
By: Airline owner - 19th March 2004 at 22:40
How large or small will thier fleet be after that reduction
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March 19, 2004 at 7:09 pm