fly4fud & Stellina,
But there's things that simply cannot be left to sink....
Why ?
Let Swissair and Crossair fail if there is no other alternative. If there is really a market another airline will see the day.... Perhaps this time it will be a well-managed airline.
Swiss Railway (which is not a reference !!) and airlines are two different 'systems'. If you want to go from Zurich to Geneva by train you have only one possibility but if you want to go from Zurich to London you have several possibilities. That's what we name competition. And you (all cutomers) are the big winners of competition. It's completely unfair and anti-competitive to subsidize just some airlines and not the others.
Swiss government will give 2 bn swiss franc but there is no guarantee that the new airline will survive because the organisational and culture change will probably be the greatest challenge for the new airline. Crossair and Swissair had a completely different culture. More than one firm have collapsed due to a less important organisational change...
[ 18 October 2001: Message edited by: atr42 ]