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Old 29th Apr 2008, 14:10
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Suter was (in retrospect)the biggest charlatan in European aviation and probably the worst CEO. He never earned the capital costs with his Crossair, and with the exception of one year always lost money on the ops profit line. However he had a bunch of always applauding journalists to constantly polish his big ego.

He boasted that he paid the lowest wages in the industry ( entry FO's who paid their own training were paid 3.500 CHF = approx 2000 € /mth ). Needless to say that at a certain period most of his pilots were from Eastern Europe with questionable English skills, which led to the Saab 200 crash at Nassenwil due to lack of communication in the cockpit. He was cited that he would find pilots which would fly for free sandwiches en route. He made sure that he surrounded himself always with Yesmen, André Dosé is a prime example.

Time for the justice to pierce through the veil and bring out the truth that Moritz Suter's ego was always higher than safe flight ops.

I am sure that the court will find out this truth, but I doubt that he will be sentenced.

Frank
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