Talking of Easy’s A319’s, can anyone confirm if GEZES has been dlvd yet?, and if so, the dlvry date. This is the a/c that was at Farnborough, but I’ve not yet seen any reports of it being in service

EZES dosen’t as yet figure on the CAA website, although EZET does (was registered a week ago today (the 11th)), although Certification for it is still pending.

It’s great fun to be vindicated, I’ve been moaning about ZRH for ages (and didn’t I say about a year and a half ago that easyJet would eventually move their ops from ZRH to BSL?).

First up, on Tuesday, Swiss announced their half yearly results (33Million CHF, but a considerable improvement on the same period last year (333Million CHF 😮 )), and CEO Christoph Franz fired a broadside against ZRH’s punctuality ratings. (no surprise there, I can hardly even remember the last time I left there on time… 1990, I think it was?)

Then, on Wednesday, easyJet announce they’re pulling out of ZRH, citing ridiculously high fees.

If anyone’s interested, there’s some excellent newspapaer articles on it (although they’re in German) at…

http://www.baz.ch/invoke.cfm?ObjectID=713DDBBF-60CF-2062-F49845DA513F8CDD&method=displayFull
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/wirtschaft/406462.html

And finally a Map of Switzerland to give you a general idea… Basel’s about 100km from Zurich, 55 minutes by Train, just over on the Motorway.

Map of Switzerland © 2003 by James Martin, licensed to About

Curiosity has forced me to check the terms and conditions on the Fly Globespan website, it says you can’t consume your own beverages on board with the exception of water. So I guess it’s ok to bring on those fish suppers and donner kebabs ?

easyJet emphasise that the only alcohol permitted to be consumed on board is that sold by the crew, which obviously makes sense as it allows them to keep track of consumption, and stop serving if they think you’ve had enough.

As for only letting you bring your own Water, it may well be so as to make sure you’re not swigging a bottle of, say, Coke with a large shot of Johnnie Walker in it…

As for brininging your own, I’ve walked onto BA aircraft before with a bottle of Lilt from the gateside WHSmith before, and drank it whilst taxi-ing, it’s not a problem normally, even on ‘full service’ airlines.

But then again, you all know the contempt I hold the All Day Deli in… 😉

Nice! Fantastic there are still planes around wearing the Crossair colours!

There are still a couple of Crossair liveried ERJ’s about, and the Saab2000 fleet I think only one is currently in full Swiss colours, with 2 still in the old blue and red splashes along the fuselage colours scheme (in fact, I saw one of them when I landed at Basel on Sunday).