By: Bhoy - 18th October 2002 at 10:10
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
I’ve had a quick check with my Swiss contacts, all the former SR Airbus’s in Zurich have the logos/titles covered, and Swiss have also now confirmed that their seven strong A319 fleet will be phased out as of the last quarter of 2004, to be replaced by Embraer ERJ195-200’s.
This follows former Crossair CEO Moritz Sutter’s declaration at the time that Crossair selected their new regional fleet that the A319 didn’t make financial sense without the economies of Scale of operating the bigger 320 family members.
My reading of that is that Swiss’ narrowbody Airbus fleet is no longer big enough to make the difference.
The 319 has a MTOW of 64tons, while the 195’s is 47 tons, with a capacity of only 18 pax less than the 319, and a sizeable saving in landing fees is anticipated with the Brazilian Aircraft.
And regarding Air Switzerland, they sacked 58 employees last month, 11 in their head office, and all crew based at BRN. They have apparently reached the conclusion that a profitable operation isn’t attainable from BRN, and they now wish to operate a Scheduled/Charter operation ex-ZRH. One of their DO328’s is to be returned to teh lessor, and the aircraft parked at BRN is to be transferred to ZRH (it’s HB-AEG), where HB-AEJ is already parked.
Nonetheless, Air Switzerland still hasn’t got an Operating Licence, and with only a few employees left, it would appear to rapidly be becoming little more than pie in the sky.
By: KabirT - 18th October 2002 at 09:28
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
Nothing has been declared about the Swissair fleet and Air Switzerland hasent taken off yet…heard there finances were not worked out yet.
By: A330Crazy - 17th October 2002 at 19:53
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-10-02 AT 08:04Â PM (GMT)]The aircraft in the picture Saab, that sit behind the trio, are ex-swissair A321’s.
Does anyone know whats happening with the old swissair fleet, that was stored at ZHR?
Also when looking at the Zurich airport webcam the last couple of times, the Air Switzerland Dr328 aircraft has just been sitting in a remote part of the airport, along with some stored swissair aircraft, have Air Switzerland got off the ground yet (exuse the pun 😛 )?
By: T5 - 17th October 2002 at 18:33
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
Very nice – I love South African and Sri Lankan liveries.
By: Saab 2000 - 17th October 2002 at 17:26
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
I agree,three beautiful schemes!What airline/aircraft is behind?
By: dcfly - 17th October 2002 at 13:55
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
Kabir strikes again…. good pic, I’m a 747 man myself
sober at last
Dave
By: A330Crazy - 17th October 2002 at 11:16
RE: Pic Of The Day-three great c/s!
Sri Lankan has to be the best for me out of all shown in the pic. So clean looking.
Great pic kabir.
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