AA (already) welcomes SWISS to oneworld
Mar 6, 2002, 4:30 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Rudi:
they (crossair/SWISS) did evaluate
* watch/Swatch (Hayek, CEO of Swatch declined, not wanting to take any risks for his brand in case ...).
* Swiss Knife wouldn't be accepted in the latin/Southern athmosphere (gifting a knive in Italy is considered to be a Mafia gift: meaning 'get yourself killed' or 'you will be killed' or in latin america I learned not to gift such a weapon an (THE) owner of a brewery told me so (in Rio de Janeiro in 1972 ...)
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they (crossair/SWISS) did evaluate
* watch/Swatch (Hayek, CEO of Swatch declined, not wanting to take any risks for his brand in case ...).
* Swiss Knife wouldn't be accepted in the latin/Southern athmosphere (gifting a knive in Italy is considered to be a Mafia gift: meaning 'get yourself killed' or 'you will be killed' or in latin america I learned not to gift such a weapon an (THE) owner of a brewery told me so (in Rio de Janeiro in 1972 ...)
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Well, why not use a name that everyone can agree on that they like - -
SWISS CHOCOLATE !!
Mar 9, 2002, 10:51 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DOC 2 BE:
Well, why not use a name that everyone can agree on that they like - -
SWISS CHOCOLATE !!</font>
Well, why not use a name that everyone can agree on that they like - -
SWISS CHOCOLATE !!</font>
Mar 10, 2002, 9:02 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Rudi:
as far as I know unfortunately (but 'only') a total of 50 passengers have been killed in all (2) accidents since Crossair started.
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as far as I know unfortunately (but 'only') a total of 50 passengers have been killed in all (2) accidents since Crossair started.
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