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TAR14 EP2: Your Target Is Your Partners Face (Germany)
TARAsia Fan:
If you type "swissair.com" which I did for my recap, you get Swiss International Air's website and it still named, "Swissair".
cba:
--- Quote from: apskip on February 28, 2009, 07:58:53 AM ---cba, I believe that your information is incomplete. Yes, Swiss Air is out of business and acquired by Luthansa. However, the new version is named Swiss International Airlines Ltd., either Swiss (which is really an adjective and not an airline) or Swiss Air for short, so what's the problem here?
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Noone uses "Swiss International Airlines (Ltd.)" . They don't even say it when welcoming you on board (at least they didn't when I was there). The short name commonly used is "Swiss" (and there were lots of controversies when the name was revealed cause they payed a lot of money to a high-profile PR firm to come up with it and everyone agreed that "Swiss" isn't really that original). Swiss Air is not used, mostly because many still talk about the old airline so it could be confusing and it's surely not used in any printed media or even merchandise, since Swissair (in early times even sometimes written Swiss Air to add to the confusion) was a joint stock company and there's still creditors (companys and private persons) that could sue anyone for money made with "Swiss Air" or "Swissair". And as you see, the big bold letters you can read from far on the plane is just "Swiss", without any added "air" or anything else.
My information is based on my father's information. He's worked for Swissair and later Swiss 1968 until his retirement in 2007.
There's no problem. I just noticed an error - that the plane shot was made several years ago - and wanted to let you guys know about it. :)
Chateau d If:
I have a feeling they use a lot of canned takeoff and landing shots. It's great that cba has proved a solid example.
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