GenevaLunch » airline http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no JetBlue pilot held without bond in Texashttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/jetblue-pilot-held-without-bond-in-texas/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/jetblue-pilot-held-without-bond-in-texas/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:35:21 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68549 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The JetBlue pilot who made world headlines after he was arrested for causing a mid-air panic among passengers is being held without bond following a federal court hearing in Texas Monday 2 April. Clayton Osbon, who has been a flight captain with the US airline for 12 years, was charged last week [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/jetblue-pilot-held-without-bond-in-texas/feed/ 0 Swiss to fly to City airport rather than London Heathrow from Baselhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:36:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66447 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Airline Swiss will begin using City Airport in London rather than Heathrow for its Basel flights starting 21 May. The airline says “the modifications to Swiss’s Basel services have been prompted by the planned sale of sister Lufthansa Group carrier bmi to the International Airlines Group.”

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/feed/ 0 Zurich airport agreement signed by Germany, Switzerlandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/zurich-airport-agreement-signed-by-germany-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/zurich-airport-agreement-signed-by-germany-switzerland/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:31:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66088 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – More morning and evening flights, but fewer flights over southern Germany from Zurich: this is the tradeoff agreed to by Switzerland and Germany, which announced Saturday 28 January they have signed an agreement to reduce noise. The new accord is expected to go into effect in the summer of 2012. Noise reduction [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/zurich-airport-agreement-signed-by-germany-switzerland/feed/ 0 easyJet’s loss deepens despite strong passenger growthhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/10/easyjets-loss-deepens-despite-strong-passenger-growth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/10/easyjets-loss-deepens-despite-strong-passenger-growth/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 11:06:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57488 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The number of passengers travelling on easyJet grew by 11.6 percent in the past six months, but the airline’s growing popularity was not enough to stem losses due to fuel price increases. The company 10 May published half-year results. Load factor was a healthy 84.6 and 59 percent of the 23.9 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/10/easyjets-loss-deepens-despite-strong-passenger-growth/feed/ 0 Swiss economic upturn helps airline top Lufthansa’s carriershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/swiss-economic-upturn-helps-airline-top-lufthansas-carriers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/swiss-economic-upturn-helps-airline-top-lufthansas-carriers/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:26:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55527 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss was the best-performing of Lufthansa Group’s carriers in 2010, Air Transport World reports 21 March. The airline group 17 March published its annual report for 2010, showing Swiss in a much stronger position than in 2009. It carried 14 million passengers, the highest number in its history and had a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/swiss-economic-upturn-helps-airline-top-lufthansas-carriers/feed/ 0 Swiss flies in the black again with CHF61m profitshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:20:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45291 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Swiss is flying high again, with CHF61 million in profits for the first six months of 2010, after a dismal start to the year thanks to the Icelandic volcano that forced planes to stay on the ground. Profits were down compared to the first six months of 2009 (CHF65m), but the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/feed/ 0 EasyJet’s ash detector gets CAA supporthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/easyjets-ash-detector-gets-caa-support/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/easyjets-ash-detector-gets-caa-support/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:23:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43049 GenevaLunch.com London, England (GenevaLunch) – EasyJet, one of the airlines hardest hit by ash cloud bans, has come up with a detector that could allow pilots to spot too much ash and change course. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority says it is “happy an airline appeared to have found a technical solution, and, although it was not [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/easyjets-ash-detector-gets-caa-support/feed/ 1 Flower power gets Swiss plane to San Franciscohttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/flower-power-gets-swiss-plane-to-san-francisco/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/flower-power-gets-swiss-plane-to-san-francisco/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:54:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42832 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva residents heading for San Francisco and who want to opt for the new Swiss airline Airbus A340 flower power plane will be happy to see they’ll pay less than their fellow passengers who board in Zurich. The company has sent its special offer fares to regular customers and for those [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/flower-power-gets-swiss-plane-to-san-francisco/feed/ 1 Airline Swiss scoots around Russia, without explanationhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/31/airline-swiss-scoots-around-russia-without-explanation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/31/airline-swiss-scoots-around-russia-without-explanation/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 10:20:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42591 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Customers of Swiss who are flying to Shanghai or Hong Kong this summer will notice that the flight takes longer, and the usual view of vast stretches of Russia is no longer there: the airline has been told it cannot fly over Russian air space. No explanation is being provided by [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/31/airline-swiss-scoots-around-russia-without-explanation/feed/ 0 Flower Power plane for San Francisco rolls out in Zurichhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/26/flower-power-plane-for-san-francisco-rolls-out-in-zurich/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/26/flower-power-plane-for-san-francisco-rolls-out-in-zurich/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 15:14:45 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42364 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The new Swiss Flower Power plane, a startling change from the normally more discreet Swiss fleet planes, was scheduled to roll onto the tarmac in Zurich late Wednesday afternoon. The company will offer six flights a week to the California city starting 2 June. It has been teasing fans with snapshots [...]

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