Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] What's next: US without an "A"?
Date: Mar 09, 2002 @ 09:16
Author: Peter Hering ("Peter Hering" <hering@...>)
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Right, Len - our world's changing fast...
maybe there will be another US - without an
"A" in Europe...???
Peter H.
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From: lnadybal
Date: Saturday, March
09, 2002 02:23:53
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[BoundaryPoint] Re: Article on the Basel/Mulhouse Airport from the New
York Times Kinda like Czechoslovakia being split and one part now called "Czech". Swiss without air; Czech without a mate - get it? Oh, No! LN in DC --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Andrew T. Patton" <andrew@A...> wrote: > You can disregard info on Swissair asthey are bankrupt. There was an > interesting discussion aboutthis airport on usenet. It seems that it > has some of theshortest "flights" in the world. Some planes shift > from Basel toMulhouse so that they are considered internal flights in > theSchengan area. The plane does not move in the "flight" but the >depart point changes. The real shortest flight that actual has a >takeoff and landing is 2 minutes long and is between Westray and Papa > Westray in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.TRAVELER / By ROGER COLLIS >Hub >to Basel, > Switzerland, welcome news to travelers who can now makefast > connections through a small, user-friendly airport toprovincial > cities like Bilbao, Nuremberg, Dresden, Toulouse,Nice, > Marseilles, Valencia, Friedrichshafen and Rostock.Berlin, > but often to business airports like London City andTempelhof, a > short cab ride to the city center. In addition, thereare > connections to megahubs like Heathrow, Charles de Gaullein > Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt -- if that's where you need togo. >by Swissair > Airbus 310 (42 business-class and 143 economy seats)as a > code-share with Delta Airlines and Crossair --Swissair's > regional subsidiary -- which is developing anextensive > hub-and-spoke network through Basel.Newark-Basel is the first of a dozen similar "long, thin" > services(that is, with sparse traffic) that will be operated in > Crossaircolors on routes such as Basel-Buenos Aires/Atlanta/ > MexicoCity/Charlotte, N.C. - what I call regional long-haul routes. >Cross air ultimately plans to acquire a long-haul fleet of upgraded > Boeing 767's to serve these routes.a flight to Basel or Mulhouse, France, and you'll arrive at > thesame airport -- Euro Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg -- right > atthe border separating Switzerland, France and Germany in the > UpperRhine Valley. >of the airport, which > is 6.3 miles (10 kilometers) from Basel; 16miles (26 kilometers) > from Mulhouse and 46 miles (75 kilometers)from Freiburg in the > southwestern corner of Germany. Zurich willbe 45 minutes away > when a new highway is completed.will > have served nearly three million passengers in 1998 (around40 > percent each from France and Switzerland and 20 percentfrom > Germany) with 12 airlines currently offering more than45 > scheduled flights to 92 destinations in 25 countries.Such > carriers as Air France, British Airways, Sabena, KLMand > Lufthansa serve 36 cities in 20 countries from EuroAirport. >plans to develop Euro Airport as a regional hub for > people whowish to travel between, say, Nuremberg and Bilbao, or > Dresden andToulouse, thus saving time and avoiding the misery of > changingplanes at a megahub like Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, > London,Paris or Zurich, which give priority to long-haul >connections. >that provides more than > 520 connections a day between 40 citiesthrough Euro Airport with > an expected connecting time of 20minutes. The carrier aims to > have 1,000 daily connections linking48 European destinations by > next year, including regional servicesfrom Euro Airport to such > destinations as Warsaw, Budapest,Athens, Ankara, Bologna, > Stockholm, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Oporto,Trieste and Moscow, as > well as long-haul routes to North Americaand Asia. >coordinated waves: > early in the morning, midday, afternoon andevening, enabling > people traveling to and from most destinationsin Europe to get > there and back the same day.example, Toulouse-Vienna via Euro Cross is 2 hours 15 minutes >faster than via Zurich; Amsterdam-Bilbao is 2 hours faster than >via Paris; and Friedrichshafen-Birmingham is 1 hour 30 minutes >faster than connecting in Frankfurt. >fly point-to-point from Frankfurt to Palma at a > suitable time, hewould never go via Euro Cross, or if someone in > Nuremberg couldsave time by flying to Bordeaux via Frankfurt, he > would not useEuro Cross," says Moritz Suter, president and chief > executive ofCrossair. "But people will take Euro Cross because > it is fasterand easier in many cases." >routes > on behalf of Swissair) with a fleet of 80 aircraftconsisting of > 33-seat Saab 340 turboprops, 50-seat Saab 2000turboprops and > 97-seat Avro RJ jets. The company carried 4.7million passengers > in 1997 -- 19 percent more than the previousyear -- and made a > net profit of about $28 million.traveled > routes and relatively high fares are the key ingredientsto > Crossair's success.Airport to London City, a 15-minute > cab ride from the City, orHeathrow are $1,085 in business class, > $845 in economy and $185discounted fare. >frills" carrier. Riding > the 33-seat Saab 340 Cityliner, forexample, is the next best > thing to a private plane. On shortflights you're served regional > specialties with wines to match, oropen sandwiches of smoked > salmon and cheese with Champagne from areal bottle. >Switzerland, France and > Germany intersect on the Rhine is thecrossroads of ancient > north-south and east-west trading routes, inuse long before the > nations were created.changed hands many times between France and Germany over > the years-- belonging to Germany from 1871 to 1918 and again > from 1940to >Suter's office at the airport, you can > see the city of Basel tothe south, St. Louis in France to the > north, and beyond that theGerman city of Weil-am-Rhein on the > other side of the Rhine and tothe northeast Lörrach, in Germany. > Mulhouse is to the northeast;to the north is Mulheim in Germany > and Strasbourg inFrance. >region had its genesis as a trading hub in 1226 when Bishop > vonThun of Basel mortgaged his entire fortune to build the first >bridge on the Rhine -- the tollhouse still stands in the center > ofthe old bridge. >northern Germany would > come down through the Rhine Valley,crossing the river at Basel > on their way south via the Alps toItaly; the silk caravans from > China came up from the Balkans,crossing the Rhine here, and > continuing on to Paris andLondon. >followed the old > caravan routes: the night express from Stockholmto Palermo still > crosses the Rhine at Basel -- one of the mostimportant railway > hubs in central Europe.and France have train stations on Swiss ground in the > center ofBasel. Modern highways follow the old routes from north > to southand west to east, still crossing the Rhine at Basel. >Euro Airport is an intercultural experience. It is built on > Frenchsoil and run by a kind of public joint venture between > France andSwitzerland with board members from each country along > withrepresentatives from Germany -- a fast-growing sector of the >airport's business. >within the airport, which > apparently can be shifted depending onhow many departure gates > are needed on either side.on > both sides. The Airport Grill offers entirely different menuson > the French and Swiss sides, with the food coming from thesame > kitchen. A three-course dinner with wine could cost $55 aperson > on the Swiss side, a third less on the French side.on > where you're heading. (Each country has its own immigrationand > customs channels.) But it may be a good idea to compare taxiand > car rental prices in French and Swiss francs. There areseparate > parking lots on each side.going to Germany, you can come out either side. But the > airportbus to Freiburg goes from the French exit. And a French > taxi islikely to cost a lot less than a Swiss taxi. You may like > the ideaof taking a French taxi to Germany or Switzerland. > --Andrew T. Patton WWW: http://www.AndrewPatton.com > Fairfax, VA, USAE-Mail: andrew@A... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/BgmYkB/VovDAA/ySSFAA/WkiolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ |
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