Why there is still swiss plane with Crossair paint?

Ovostar · Post by **Ovostar** » 27 Jul 2005, 20:09

I was a LCY (London City Airport) and i saw so swiss planes still flying with the Crossair paint.
Some them are like that: for example

But sometimes you see crossairs with the older one like that:

Why ? I know it's very expensive to paint a plane, but 3 years after, come on....

Why not this paint

(these are not my pictures, but pictures randomly took with google image search)

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 27 Jul 2005, 21:33

The ones with the very old paint are the old Saab planes only !! I don't think that ERJ's have the very old colours.

Anyway painting costs a lot of money and the Saab's will leave the fleet anyway, so why paint them !!

Chris

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 27 Jul 2005, 21:35

With the very old colours I ment this scheme : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/270817/L/

Chris

Ovostar · Post by **Ovostar** » 27 Jul 2005, 22:24

Yes, this is the one meant...
There is a lot of trouble with the saab pilots and swiss now.

I miss the "Concordino" era!

Ovostar · Post by **Ovostar** » 29 Jul 2005, 16:16

Is it legal to have a plane with the wrong name on it ? They were not aloud to put the name Swissair, so the first days, there were swiss stickers covering the "air" of swissair... So why are they aloud to fly planes with the name crossair ? Because they are still LX ?

Jumbolino · Post by **Jumbolino** » 26 Aug 2005, 20:37

the Swissair sotry was only because they where afraid their aircraft could be grounded in other countries because of the hughe SR debt, but Crossair never went bancrupt and I'm not sure if the Company behaind swiss int. airlines isn't still named crossair .... and as long as you have a sticker somewhere visible operated by XYZ which covers the real company name which operates the flight it's legal the painting is only - advertising