Well just to get it straight, Crossair was supposed to be running the whole shooting match - short and long range and Swissair was supposed to be defunct as of 28. October this year.
It turned out that the Crossair management just didn't have time to gain the expertise and to plan either the long range or ex-Swissair short range ops and asked for an extension till March 2002.
This had resulted in Swissair soldiering on with reduced capacity (and consequent job losses) - which was NOT planned. It is for sure not a way to keep Swissair flying without paying its debtors.
As for those other airlines which have gone bust - well this just shows how much they relied on the enormous and misdirected sums of money pumped in by Swissair. The attempt to build a consortium of under-performing airlines was doomed from the start - because these airlines were also doomed and indeed would have faltered earlier had it not been for the association.
Nobody likes it but Pilots slagging off Pilots ain't going to help. What also won't help is impounding aircraft from associated but innocent companies and trying to squeeze money from where there isn't any.