Swiss : LX : SWR :

«Aucun doute! Swiss doit voler sous le nom de Swissair au plus vite. Autrement dit, dès le début de l’horaire d’été, en mars 2010», estime l’éditorialiste de la revue américaine Aviation Week, Pierre Sparaco.
Utopie? Pas vraiment. La semaine dernière, la filiale bâloise de Lufthansa a repris le contrôle du nom de la prestigieuse compagnie helvétique disparue en mars 2002. L’administrateur de la masse concordataire de SAirGroup, Karl Wüthrich, lui a en effet cédé ce bien en échange de l’abandon de ses prétentions sur les restes de la société.
Le porte-parole de Swiss, Jean-Claude Donzel, a confirmé que le montant de ce sacrifice avoisinerait les 10 millions de francs.

In the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] at London's Heathrow Airport it is often tough to find out what really is going on.
That is currently the case for the announcement today that Swiss is returning to the Heathrow-Geneva market after a six year hiatus with a six-times-a-day schedule.
Now my assumption is that these slots are coming from fellow Lufthansa Group partner struggling UK carrier bmi - that's not a tough call really is it! And quite frankly using these slots on the profitable UK-Switzerland market makes sense from the group perspective.
The interesting background to this story is that [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]as part of the price for entering the oneworld Alliance and securing some much-needed cash from BA.
Swiss UK country manager Gregor Koncilja is careful not to say anything about the slot issue, but regardless he is clearly delighted to expand his Heathrow offering with the Geneva route.
Swiss also operates six times a day to Zurich from Heathrow, as well as seven times a day from London City Airport to Zurich. Its six time daily service from City to Geneva will go down by two flights when Heathrow begins.
Rather uniquely Swiss can sell both airports on one ticket, with some travellers jetting off from City to Switzerland directly from the offices in downtown London, but returning to the west of London Heathrow for more convenient access to home.
The new route will be operated with one Swiss Airbus A319 and a bmi A320 and the two carriers will also forge a wider codeshare pact for UK-Switzerland flights.

Swiss leads Lufthansa's airline pack
Lufthansa's full-year result, which included an €8 million ($11 million) operating loss by the Passenger Airline Group, was buoyed slightly by the €93 million operating profit posted by its Swiss International Air Lines subsidiary, the most successful carrier in the LH stable.
Swiss's performance contrasted with the €293.9 million operating loss at Austrian Airlines, a €78 million deficit at bmi and a €24 million profit reported by Germanwings. The Lufthansa mainline and affiliated regionals lost €107 million. Brussels Airlines, 45% owned by Lufthansa, was not included in the company's full-year financials released last week [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
Swiss's profit was down 68% from the year-ago surplus of €291 million on a 14.3% decline in revenue to €2.77 billion. Passenger numbers rose 2.4% to 13.8 million and load factor dipped 0.2 point to 80.1%. The airline said it "intends to improve earnings again in 2010. This is not solely to be achieved by further cost savings but also by higher revenue."
Austrian, which was merged into LH in September, had a €31 million impact on the group's operating result. On its own, the negative EBIT was narrowed 5.8% from a €312.1 million operating loss in 2008. Revenue dropped 20.3% to €1.96 billion and net loss reached €324.9 million, improved from a €429.5 million deficit in 2008. Passenger numbers were off 10.2% to 9.9 million on an 11.2% cut in seat capacity. Load factor slipped 0.9 point to 74%. OS intends to have positive cash flow this year and is targeting an operating profit in 2011.
Bmi's €78 million impact on LH's bottom line reflects its contribution since joining the group in July. Through the six months ended Sept. 30, 2009, the UK carrier reported an operating loss of £111 million ($168.7 million) [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. LH said bmi's mainline fleet will be cut to 30 aircraft from 39 while bmibaby's will fall to 14 from 17. It said it "anticipates a further operating loss in 2010."
Finally, Germanwings' operating profit of €23.9 million marked a 300% improvement from the 2008 result. Revenue declined 7.6% to €580 million as the LCC cut five A310ws from its fleet. Passenger numbers decreased 6% to 7.2 million. It now operates 26 A319s.

La crise du transport aérien va durer encore 4 ou 5 ans: patron de SWISS

BERLIN, 28 mars 2010 : La crise du transport aérien va durer encore quatre ou cinq ans, estime le patron de la compagnie aérienne SWISS (groupe Lufthansa), Harry Hohmeister dans un entretien à la presse allemande à paraître lundi.

Swiss to retrofit entire A340 fleet by mid 2011
Swiss International Air Lines has no short or medium-term plans to acquire replacements for its [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] fleet as the carrier instead plans to focus on retrofitting all 15 of its A340-300s with a refreshed premium product by next June.
The Star Alliance carrier introduced new first and business class seats last year as it placed into service the first of 10 new [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-300s, which Swiss is using to replace its A330-200s. The first [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] with the new product was introduced earlier this month and is currently operating some of the carrier's new Zurich-San Francisco flights. This aircraft has a special one-off San Francisco livery, which features a loud and colourful flowery design.
Swiss CEO Harry Hohmeister says the carrier plans to retrofit all the A340-300s by June 2011. He adds with the cabin upgrade, Swiss believes it has a good product to serve the market for the next 10 years, and as a result it is not currently looking to replace any of its A340s in the short or medium-term.
"We have no time pressure," Hohmeister told ATI prior to a speech to the International Aviation Club in Washington DC.
Swiss has been evaluating the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] for several years as potential long-term replacements for its A340s. Hohmeister says this evaluation continues independent of parent [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], which also has been evaluating both new aircraft types and has also said it has no short or medium-term plans to acquire new medium-size widebodies.
Hohmeister says Swiss plans to complete retrofitting a second A340-300 in August. This aircraft will also be placed on Zurich-San Francisco, allowing Swiss to offer the refreshed product on all six of its weekly flights on the new route. Hohmeister says at the same time some Zurich-Boston flights will also be upgraded to the refreshed A340 because Swiss has a rotation in which the Boston and San Francisco flights use the same group of A340s.
Hohmeister says the Zurich-Hong Kong route is next in line to receive the upgraded A340-300. This will occur in the autumn.
While all of Swiss' A340 routes will feature the new product by next June, all of the carrier's A330 routes will be upgraded by the end of this year. Hohmeister says Swiss currently has six A330-300s in service and a seventh will be delivered within the next few days. This aircraft will replace an [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] currently operating on the Zurich-Nairobi route, leaving Swiss with only two remaining A330-200s.
The final three A330-300s from the 10-aircraft acquisition will all be delivered in the second half of this year. Swiss originally indicated its last [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] would be delivered in 2011.
Hohmeister says two of the A330-300s to be delivered in the second half of this year will be replacement aircraft and the final aircraft will be a growth aircraft. Swiss has not yet decided on a route for the growth aircraft.
Swiss' new first-class cabin features lie-flat beds, in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems that offer iPod connectivity and 23in monitors as well as generous work surfaces and storage facilities. The new business-class offering feature seats which fully recline and include air cushions that can be adjusted to passengers' desired comfort level.
Hohmeister claims its investment in upgrading its premium product has helped Swiss stay profitable in the current downturn and relevant despite being a small carrier. Swiss was among a minority of European carriers which posted a profit in 2009 and Hohmeister is confident the carrier will stay profitable this year despite "a really rocky start of 2010" due to the volcanic ash cloud, which closed Europe's airspace for several days.
He says while the Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and African markets are now relatively healthy and the US is "quite OK, Europe is still doing very poorly".

Questar a écrit:Merci Dayafter pour la précision.

RR éjecte P&W qui avait pourtant le 4100 à offrir.

Que deviennent les A 330-223 de Swiss, gardés, proposés à la vente ?

Quelle différence avec les A 340-300, finalement ?

• la prise d'A330-300 (histoires de compensations pour les retards sur A380) par Lufthansa (maison mère de Swiss),
  
• la coïncidence (plus ou moins) dans le timing des livraisons d'Airbus à LH, et les possibilités de renouvellement de la flotte de SWISS, avec un supplément de PUC, dont avait besoin SWISS, sur des itinéraires où le rayon d'action des A330-300 suiffisait largement,
  
• le désir de faire une rationalisation des appareils & de leurs motorisations dans la flotte du Groupe LH,
  
• .....et d'obtenir des conditions d'Airbus, et de RR (Trent 772B), ......
  
• tout en préparant une rationalisation des facilités et des programmes de MRO pour Lufthansa TECHNIK (et SR TECHNICS ? ), en éjectant la troisème motoriste, .... P&W,
  
• et de préparer la gestion 'harmonisée' / "dove-tailed" des flottes des A340-300 (airframes et moteurs) de Lufthansa et de Swiss ! [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]
  

• les gains (toujours espérés, ... mais non pas encore réels) en "fuel-burn efficiency", à ce stade, en faveur du CSeries, destinés à remplacer les Avro RJ-100, et imputables au moteur, pourraient bien n'être que "single digit" (single digit ! ) ;
  
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• car les ingénieurs de l'airframer Bombardier réclamaient, il n'y a pas si longtemps, pour l'airframe, 15% à 20% de gains en fuel-burn efficiency (dans le genre de comparaison qui nous intéresse ici), provenant uniquement de l'airframe, et de son incorporation de nouveau design, de nouveaux matériaux et de nouvelles technologies ;
  
• modestes et raisonnables , ces ingénieurs se contentaient de dire 15% à 16%, en privilégiant le bas de la fourchette, pour ne pas exagérer.
  

• the gains (still hoped-for ... but not yet real) in "fuel-burn efficiency", at this stage, in favour of the CSeries, chosen to replace the Avro RJ-100, and attributable to the engines, could well be only "single digit" (single digit ! ) ;
  
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• for the engineers of the airframer Bombardier were claiming, not so long ago, for the airframe, 15% to 20% gains in fuel-burn efficiency (in the sort of comparison which interests us here), coming solely from the airframe, and incorporation therein of new design, new materials, and new technologies ;
  
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• modest and reasonable, these engineers limited themselves to saying 15% à 16%, favouring the lower end of the parameters, to avoid all risk of exaggeration.
  

• 20 A320s pour Lufthansa
  
• 3 A330-300 pour Lufthansa
  
• des A320 pour Swiss
  
• 5 A330 pour Swiss
  
• 8 A319 pour Germanwings
  

Lufthansa orders 40 more Airbus jets

Germany's Lufthansa Group will buy 40 more Airbus jets, under a deal the company's supervisory board approved Wednesday.
Specifically, the group will acquire 20 A320 Family jets and three A330-300s for Lufthansa airline, A320 Family aircraft and five A330-300s for subsidiary SWISS and eight A319s for subsidiary Germanwings.
The jets are worth approximately $4.3 billion at list prices, although customers generally get steep discounts. The order means Airbus now has won 410 orders from Lufthansa Group, its biggest airline customer.
"Our decision to acquire additional Airbus aircraft is testament not only to their advantageous operating costs, reliability and performance, but also to our long-standing partnership with Airbus," Nico Buchholz, Lufthansa's executive vice president, Group Fleet Management, said in a news release.
Also Wednesday, Lufthansa's board named Deputy Chairman Christoph Franz to succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as chairman and chief executive officer of the Lufthansa Group, effective Jan. 1.
"With Christoph Franz at the helm and his broad wealth of experience, foresight and determination to implement change, our company will continue to be able to react to future challenges with the necessary speed and flexibility," Mayrhuber said in a statement.

22 Sep 2010
ROLLS-ROYCE WINS $560 MILLION ORDER FROM
LUFTHANSA AND SWISS

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won an order worth $560m, at list prices, for Trent 700 engines to power eight Lufthansa and SWISS Airbus A330 aircraft. The order includes a TotalCare® long-term service agreement. The aircraft will enter service from 2012.

Mark King, Rolls-Royce President - Civil Aerospace, said: "We are delighted that Lufthansa and SWISS continue to put their trust in our leading-edge Trent technology. The competitive TotalCare® support package we are able to offer will enable our customers to derive additional operational and performance benefits."

The Trent 700 is the only engine specifically designed for the Airbus A330 and over 1,000 are now in service or on firm order. The engine remains the market leader for the aircraft, capturing 75 per cent of orders over the last three years. The engine offers outstanding levels of performance while delivering the highest available thrust.

Jeannot a écrit:Le groupe Lufthansa va commander 40 Airbus supplémentaires dont :

• 20 A320s pour Lufthansa
  
• 3 A330-300 pour Lufthansa
  
• des A320 pour Swiss
  
• 5 A330 pour Swiss
  
• 8 A319 pour Germanwings
  

Lufthansa orders 40 more Airbus jets

Germany's Lufthansa Group will buy 40 more Airbus jets, under a deal the company's supervisory board approved Wednesday.
Specifically, the group will acquire 20 A320 Family jets and three A330-300s for Lufthansa airline, A320 Family aircraft and five A330-300s for subsidiary SWISS and eight A319s for subsidiary Germanwings.
The jets are worth approximately $4.3 billion at list prices, although customers generally get steep discounts. The order means Airbus now has won 410 orders from Lufthansa Group, its biggest airline customer.
"Our decision to acquire additional Airbus aircraft is testament not only to their advantageous operating costs, reliability and performance, but also to our long-standing partnership with Airbus," Nico Buchholz, Lufthansa's executive vice president, Group Fleet Management, said in a news release.
Also Wednesday, Lufthansa's board named Deputy Chairman Christoph Franz to succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as chairman and chief executive officer of the Lufthansa Group, effective Jan. 1.
"With Christoph Franz at the helm and his broad wealth of experience, foresight and determination to implement change, our company will continue to be able to react to future challenges with the necessary speed and flexibility," Mayrhuber said in a statement.

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The Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved a Group's order for a total of 48 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft.
The planned order includes three Airbus A330-300 and 20 Airbus A320 Family aircraft for Lufthansa.

The order also includes five Airbus A330-300s, two Airbus A321s and tw Airbus A320s for SWISS, ...

...... as well as eight new Airbus A319 for Germanwings as well as eight new Embraer 195 aircraft for Lufthansa Regional.

Lufthansa says the new aircraft will be delivered to the Group from 2012 onwards.

"This order will allow our airlines to make targeted use of the growth opportunities that are resulting from the growing demand, and at the same time, it will allow us to preserve the necessary freedoms to always react to fluctuations in demand and changes in the market with the necessary flexibility," comments Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber.

The financing of the orders shall occur using the Group's liquid assets or external financing says the Group.

• Les moteurs des 8 x A330-300 (dont 3 pour Lufthansa & 5 pour SWISS)
  ont déjà été commandés "ferme" auprès fr RR (soit des RR Trent 772B-EP). [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]
  
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The Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved a Group's order for a total of 48 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft.
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VictorK a écrit:Merci Sevrien !

DLH, l'exemple type de la commande par excellence, référencée comme un désintérêt actuel pour la "révolution" NEO. " Caramba !"

VictorK a écrit: Dans quelques temps, M. Franz, le nouveau boss, aura le reporting de Swiss sur les CS. Un appareil qui n'a pas ( et n'aura jamais ) les capacités en belly freight des 320 famille.

VictorK a écrit: Et à condition que ce beau CS sorte des eaux.....avec une autre motorisation, est-ce possible ?
C'est pourtant bien une des questions posées il y a peu par Qatar ( en forme de conclusion )

SEVRIEN a écrit:Mais mieux vaut arriver avec 12 à 18 mois de retard avec un moteur aussi, sinon plus performant, et juridiquement "sans tache", qu'à l'heure avec un moteur, qui pourrait être frappé d'interdiction en prime ! [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

Qatar, .... aurait-il été utilisé, pour faire "sortir" ces aspects ? [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

Jeannot a écrit:

SEVRIEN a écrit:Mais mieux vaut arriver avec 12 à 18 mois de retard avec un moteur aussi, sinon plus performant, et juridiquement "sans tache", qu'à l'heure avec un moteur, qui pourrait être frappé d'interdiction en prime ! [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

Qatar, .... aurait-il été utilisé, pour faire "sortir" ces aspects ? [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

Question : "Vous pensez que la querelle RR/PW puisse aller jusqu'à demander (et obtenir) l'interdiction du moteur ?

• "Il ne faut pas paniquer. Il faut suivre de près ce dossier.
  
• "Nous sommes dans le doit commercial international, où le principe de "Caveat Emptor" joue pleinement.
  
• "A vous de voir si vous avez envie de vous trouver avec un "airframe" sans moteurs.
  
• "Le risque est maintenant posé !
  
• "P&W et UYC ont poussé le bouchon ytop loin ! Malgré la décision de justice, dans leur pays, ..... ils ont décidé de passer outre, contre la décision de "la chosz jugée", donc.
  
• "Jusqu'ici, RR a joué "soft-ball". P&W / UTC ont continué à faire les Cowboys du Far-West".
  
• "RR a décidé de faire valoir ses droits, de jouer "hard-ball", et a intenté un procès".
  
• "Il faut se remettre en question !
  
• "Quelle est la position de Bombardier?"