Swiss Crises

Switzerland well known as freehaven for large piles of money and for that same reason home to many and large banks and insurance companies got and did his part of the credit crises as well.

Today I had to go to Basel (Basle?) and best fitting with my time schedule would be the Swiss flight of 13:10. Arriving at the airport at around 12 it again struck me how quiet it was. Like last week Monday morning. And again I was the only one at the check-in counter. Killed some time inbetween before walking to the gate. And there was a nice surprise waiting for the passengers: CANCELLED. WTF as my kids would say.

At checking-in, less then half an hour ago, nobody said anything and there is no plane at all! They should have known that. Either they are to stupid/badly organized to warn the passengers or they do it on purpose. Anyway a 5 minute walk to the transfer desk only to find out we had to go back to the gate and wait for someone to take it furter. That person showed up shortly after 1 and the solution provided was to transfer all the 40 odd passengers to the 14:55 flight to Zurich. Same gate she said. Of course it was not. Another nice walk was the consequence.

So 40 passengers could simply be added to the Zurich flight. That must mean that that plane was only half full. Which leads to the conclusion that Swiss has become cheap&mean: just cancell a flight if there is another one some time later going to somewhere in the region of the original destination. That a large portion of their passengers will be missing appointments and are in no way interested in an extra train trip Zurich-Basel is apperently of no concern.

Well, dear Swiss if I can avoid it in anyway I will not be travelling with you again. Second time out of 3 trips! And, dear Lufthansa, shape up! Story I hear from fellow travellers is that you are not an inch better.
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