SWISS’ short-haul fleet to fly as Swiss European
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SWISS’ short-haul fleet to fly as Swiss European
October 10, 2005
SWISS’ short-haul fleet to fly as Swiss European
The SWISS Board of Directors has decided to transfer European regional services to a fully-owned company within the SWISS Group before the end of the year. The entire current regional segment will take off as "Swiss European Air Lines" once the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation has delivered an operating permit. The move will make a further contribution to enhancing SWISS’s competitiveness, and should provide a basis for growth in the European services sector.
As a fully-owned subsidiary of SWISS, Swiss European will function as an operating company, providing "wet lease" flights in the European market on behalf of its parent company. Swiss European will naturally work to the same high standards of quality, safety and training already adopted by the parent company. It will trade under the SWISS brand, and commercial responsibility will remain with SWISS.
The new airline will inherit all the aircraft in the current regional fleet (Avro RJ 85/100 and Embraer 145). Likewise, all regional pilots will transfer to Swiss European. The cabin crews will initially be provided by Swiss International. In the medium-term, Swiss European will recruit its own cabin staff and build up its own workforce.
Swiss European will start out with a fleet of seven Embraer 145s and eighteen Avro RJ85/100s, but will subsequently operate with a uniform fleet of twenty-four Avro RJ85/100s once the 2006 summer timetable comes into effect.
The cycle is now complete: back to Swissair/Crossair time!!!And of course an A319 flying between ZRH and GVA is considered as long haul
Let's see if Air China is interrested in turboprop time... Now that the ex MD-11 fleet chief told them is it a safe company to work for... 
Good luck for you guys...
D_71
SWISS’ short-haul fleet to fly as Swiss European
The SWISS Board of Directors has decided to transfer European regional services to a fully-owned company within the SWISS Group before the end of the year. The entire current regional segment will take off as "Swiss European Air Lines" once the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation has delivered an operating permit. The move will make a further contribution to enhancing SWISS’s competitiveness, and should provide a basis for growth in the European services sector.
As a fully-owned subsidiary of SWISS, Swiss European will function as an operating company, providing "wet lease" flights in the European market on behalf of its parent company. Swiss European will naturally work to the same high standards of quality, safety and training already adopted by the parent company. It will trade under the SWISS brand, and commercial responsibility will remain with SWISS.
The new airline will inherit all the aircraft in the current regional fleet (Avro RJ 85/100 and Embraer 145). Likewise, all regional pilots will transfer to Swiss European. The cabin crews will initially be provided by Swiss International. In the medium-term, Swiss European will recruit its own cabin staff and build up its own workforce.
Swiss European will start out with a fleet of seven Embraer 145s and eighteen Avro RJ85/100s, but will subsequently operate with a uniform fleet of twenty-four Avro RJ85/100s once the 2006 summer timetable comes into effect.
The cycle is now complete: back to Swissair/Crossair time!!!And of course an A319 flying between ZRH and GVA is considered as long haul
Let's see if Air China is interrested in turboprop time... Now that the ex MD-11 fleet chief told them is it a safe company to work for... Good luck for you guys...
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I think you will find it is 'China Airlines' not 'Air China', that is exhibiting an interest in taking ex-Swiss International Airlines regional pilots from the Saab 2000, ERJ and ARJ.
It does make a big difference.
BD
I think you will find it is 'China Airlines' not 'Air China', that is exhibiting an interest in taking ex-Swiss International Airlines regional pilots from the Saab 2000, ERJ and ARJ.
It does make a big difference.
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Was to be expected......and what will this all boil down to????
a) The 'old Swissair-Mafia' in ZRH has won again and will pick the raisins,
b) More hours for less pay for the rest,
c) Lower standards of Cabin Crew and service in the future (at least paywise!)
d) LH will have another LoCo-Carrier under its wings (while they can't even manage their main 'big' operation effectively!)
It is all politics again....
LH-Shareholders should be crying out loud now!
Cheers!
a) The 'old Swissair-Mafia' in ZRH has won again and will pick the raisins,
b) More hours for less pay for the rest,
c) Lower standards of Cabin Crew and service in the future (at least paywise!)
d) LH will have another LoCo-Carrier under its wings (while they can't even manage their main 'big' operation effectively!)
It is all politics again....
LH-Shareholders should be crying out loud now!
Cheers!
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Stop whining and take your punishment like men!!! You wouldn't even get sympathy from me if Swiss lined you up against a wall and shot the lot of you. Where the hell were you when your xenpophobic mafia was firing pilots based on nationality? Don't you all know that your Nation and Airline's loyalty lies with the Swiss Franc and the Swiss Franc alone?
