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fox1
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject: Germanwings targets Zurich as hub to compete with BA/ Swiss |
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Source: Ireland OnLIne
24/09/2003 - 10:08:28
Joachim Klein, Managing Director of budget airline Germanwings, has said the company wants to re-start talks with Zurich airport
about establishing a hub there.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG has an indirect stake in the airline, it is a unit of charter airline Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG, of which
Lufthansa owns almost 25%.
A spokesperson for Germanwings, Heinz Joachim Schoettes said no talks were taking place at present, but said the airline did not
rule out a resumption of talks.
According to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, an expansion of Germanwings' Zurich operations is a way for Lufthansa to compete
with British Airways PLC's OneWorld alliance, which Swiss International Air Lines joined yesterday.
Lufthansa had previously proposed a tie-up with Swiss, but the airline decided yesterday to sign a commercial deal with BA
instead.
BA and Swiss plan joint operations between the UK and Switzerland with codesharing on Heathrow to Geneva, Basel and Zurich routes.
Lufthansa chief financial officer Karl-Ludwig Kley said the German airline will not suffer any setbacks from losing out on the
Swiss deal, but admitted to some regrets.
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Gernot Egger
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Germanwings targets Zurich as hub to compete with BA/ Sw |
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"fox1" <fox1 (AT) NOSPAMedinburghairport (DOT) org.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:t8r3nvo150r29rb2g8qqbkgiegdo41fbqc (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...
| Quote: | According to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, an expansion of
Germanwings' Zurich operations is a way for Lufthansa to compete
with British Airways PLC's OneWorld alliance, which Swiss International
Air Lines joined yesterday. |
That's the point!
To compete with BA/Swiss and to try to prevent BA/Swiss establishing major
Central Europe hub in Zürich.
BTW: Skyeurope is starting services from Budapest later this year. (to
London STN, Paris, Milano (Bergamo) and Zürich!)
lg Gernot
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Joe Curry
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject: Germanwings targets Zurich as hub to compete with BA/ Swiss |
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The message <bksqu7$5r26m$1 (AT) ID-40879 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de>
from "Gernot Egger" <gme3 (AT) gmx (DOT) at> contains these words:
| Quote: | BTW: Skyeurope is starting services from Budapest later this year. (to
London STN, Paris, Milano (Bergamo) and Zürich!)
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Both Germanwings and HLX are joining openjet... see the story in
www.openjet.com
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