By: Saab 2000 - 8th June 2003 at 08:58
Then you could go into Swiss Express, Swiss Sun and the former Swiss Wings. Plus now the new airline called Air Switzerland.
By: greekdude1 - 8th June 2003 at 08:48
Thanks for clearing that up (I think?) Bhoy. LOL, what a joke! And I thought Olympic was bad.
By: Bhoy - 8th June 2003 at 02:52
Right, Swissair goes bankrupt, so their regional subsidary, Crossair gets bought out of Swissair by a consortium of Swiss banks. Swissair transfers their routes to Crossair, who also get hold of the SR fleet. Crossair rebrands as Swiss International Airlines (or just SWISS), and, it appears, is about to go bust themselves…
Someone’s making a major balls of it, and SARS and the Iraq war aren’t exactly helping encourage people to try out a ‘fledgling’ airline…
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SWISS flights from BSL to London City, Hannover, and Milan will be suspended as of July 1st, until traffic starts to pick up again.
By: KabirT - 7th June 2003 at 11:50
Swissair with Crossair is now Swiss…………Air Switzerland is still to take wings.
By: greekdude1 - 6th June 2003 at 23:58
All these “Swiss” Air’s are going out of business, then starting up, then going out of business. This is starting to get confusing, who was who, and who is who now.
By: Saab 2000 - 6th June 2003 at 20:11
Well Swissair had 9 A340-600s on order. Swiss Int. now has the A340-300 on order I believe, which are due for delivery to replace the MD-11s. Much more expensive than the A340 to operate plus acquisition costs make quite good sense.
I suppose the A340-600 would be a possibility, after all Swissair did have some on order, however, it will not be in the immediate future I would think as Swiss would have no need for them based on their current plans, though I am probably not the best person to go into the Swiss situation.
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