Bye bye Swissair
 

Here is the official press release.
Now we'll have to pick up the pieces...again


Swissair ceases flight operations with immediate effect

Zurich Airport, October 2, 2001 – Swissair has been forced to cease all flight operations today with immediate effect. Despite intensive efforts throughout the day, the company has been unable to obtain the liquidity needed to secure daily business and safe operations. It is uncertain at this time when flight operations will resume.

All Swissair flights had to be suspended from 12:30 CET (10:30 UTC) today. The decision that no further aircraft would be allowed to depart from Switzerland was taken at 15:45 CET (13:45 UTC). The aircraft currently abroad will be flown back to Switzerland as soon as possible.

Swissair regrets this measure, which has a drastic impact, especially for its passengers and staff. The action is being taken in what has traditionally been the strongest month of the year in revenue terms, and affects not only thousands of passengers but also thousands of jobs in and outside Switzerland. Far more jobs are now at risk than the 2650 announced yesterday.

Let's hope they manage to sort it out. Any news on how this will affect Sabena & Xair?

I'm gutted. They were an airline who got me punctually to a lot of places and I respected them. Who is going to fly me to Manchester now? Emirates used to be my favourite until they stopped the stopover en route from Bahrain a couple of years ago. Swissair became a more expensive but equally qualitative choice.
Good luck you folks at ZRH (and elsewhere.)

Agreed, terrible news. Such a good airline, at least from the passengers' point of view :(

I hope they can sort themselves out. Good luck!

Very sad news.

SR were a very fine airline. Along with all those jobs goes all my Qualiflyer miles too!

I was due to use them on SR at the end of next week. The other partners in Qualiflyer will not be able to support all the outstanding miles.

Can we please try to keep this to one thread! Have a quick look down the list of threads and you will see that a thread started on this topic within minutes of the announcement, not hours later!
:rolleyes: