Talk:Swissair

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This page was placed on Votes for Deletion in June 2004. Consensus was to keep; view discussion at /Delete.

[edit] Deleted Sabena link

I've deleted a See Also link to Sabena. Besides being former national airlines for small western European countries, there's little else to tie them together. If there's a reason it should go back in, please do so—but also please place enough information in the article to point out why it's important. --Milkmandan 09:40, 2005 Jan 19 (UTC)

There is indeed a tie between the two companies; the page on Sabena has a few details, but the story is much longer and more complicated than that. I'll restore the link and try to add a bit of information to the article. Schutz 11:06, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Needs reviewing

Some of this article contains pretty strong statements about why things happened, and I can't help but suspect there is some POV at work here. I would recommend any experts on the subject to insert a little balance. Andrewferrier 14:02, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I am thinking particularly of this excerpt: The grounding of all flights were, to a certain extent, triggered by the September 11 attacks which disrupted most airlines. But in the long term, it was Swissair's conservative administration board that caused the company's demise. Many members of this committee were Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians who made their careers in the cantonal governments or the national parliament. This serious conflict of interest prevented the airline from gathering competent specialists. Andrewferrier 14:04, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, for some time I have been the main editor of this page. I'm not keen newspaper reader anymore, and so my perception of the Swissair demise might be troubled... so, to refresh the things I know, I'm doing a little google research... it's sad that nearly nobody speaks German here:

• http://www.kantonsrat.zh.ch/internet/Protokolle/NZZ/Nzz2001/NZ011022.HTM - a protocol of the Canton of Zurich parliament. All parties, the Democratic Christians, the Socialists, the Greens and even their enemy, the populist People's Party, condemn the vigorous "Hunter strategy" discussed in the Swissair article. The Free Democrats, however, is the single party that doesn't condemn the Swissair management. Instead, they divert the attention to the Swiss-German landing approach treaty which limits the landings leading over German territory, thus hindering the Zurich Airport company unique.

• http://chronik.geschichte-schweiz.ch/swissair-debakel-grounding.html is a thorough description of the Swissair history, but in German. There, the liaisions between the Free Democrats are mentioned again. The consulting company, McKinsey, which told the Swissair into the Hunter strategy, has its connections to the Swissair - the very same person who devised the strategy at McKinsey was elected to the Swissair board of executives at a later time.

Regards, --Keimzelle 21:14, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Table

I realise that my using the {{prettytable}} template for the history of accidents and incidents means that the dates are not displayed well, but at present I have run out of time to investigate how to tweak it. Perhaps someone already knows how; otherwise I aim to research and modify sooner rather than later.
David Kernow 01:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

• added nowrap="yes" for the date column. sikander 03:10, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, sikander!  Method duly noted and I've now also centered the dates. I don't suppose it's possible to overrule the cellpadding/spacing for the sake of more room around the lengthier dates?
Best wishes, David Kernow 06:48, 5 November 2005 (UTC)