Instead of "a storm in a waterglas" I would rather talk of a tsunami that swepped four billion swiss francs within three years for the so-called "So What? It's Still Swissair" (It's not. Swiss Int'l Airlines as more to do with "Silly Wanabee In Swiss Skies" than with anything else).
Among the destitute fishermen left on the seaside you'll find the 52 Saab pilots who undersigned that letter, rolled in a bottle and thrown to the waves...