Geneva airport
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Hainan Airlines, which will begin operating non-stop flights between Zurich and Beijing 31 May, is opening sales in Zurich 1 May with Aviareps handling bookings and service for the privately owned Chinese company.
Hainan Air will initially offer three flights a week, but this is scheduled to increase if the demand is strong enough.
Geneva to Amsterdam seats will increase by 14 percent on KLM this summer and Basel will have Swiss flights to Nice starting 1 July for an introductory fare of CHF99. Swiss is also adding 7 flights a week to Rome’s Fiumicino Airport from Basel 27 March, in addition to its current four from Zurich.
Numbers don’t correspond to files handed back to Geneva bank
Nice, France (GenevaLunch) – The public prosecutor in Nice, Eric de Montgolfier, told a group of reporters Wednesday 14 April that 80,000 account holders have been identified, 8,000 of them French, from the files stolen from HSBC bank’s Geneva offices in 2007. The former HSBC employee who stole them, Herve Falciani, has been given a new identity by the French and he appears to have helped the government decrypt the files.
The figures don’t, however, correspond to those the bank says it found when Swiss authorities gave it a copy of most of the data in March.
HSBC in Geneva said 11 March 2010 that while the number of accounts was greater than the original 10 mentioned in 2009 by the bank, the total number was 24,000, well below the figure provided this week by the French prosecutor. Of those, 9,000 had left the bank, since the stolen data covered accounts that dated back to 2006.
An Easyjet flight over the Saleve, near Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – An easyJet flight from Geneva to Nice 11 December landed safely after the 144 passengers spent 70 extra minutes in the air and were shown the brace position to prepare for a landing with an unsafe right main gear, Aviation Herald reports.
The pilots aborted the initial approach to Nice Airport, then tried two more times to get the gear down properly before “a low approach suggested all gear was down.”
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swatch subsidiary Tech-Airport Holding SAS has won the watch store contract at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport, bringing to 29 the number of shops the company operates, mainly in France, but with a new one opening soon in Austria. The company specializes in airport watch and jewelry shops. The Nice plans include a specialty shop in the business terminal.
