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Basel, Bern, Zurich should rev up taxi competition, says Comco

03/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss cantons and communes should allow greater competition among taxi services, says Comco, the Swiss Competition Commission. Services from other areas should be given more freedom, in particular the commission says. Local authorities in several major Swiss cities are not applying federal competition regulations, says Comco, citing the federal Internal Markets Law, […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Basel, Bern, Business, Comco, fares, Internal Markets Law, rates, Swiss competition commission, taxis, Zurich

Easyjet follows its apology for late flights with rosy numbers (update)

06/09/2010 by Ellen Wallace

(video interview) Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Easyjet Monday 6 September published its figures for August, showing a healthy increase of 8.4 percent compared to August 2009: more than 5.2 million passengers. The upbeat numbers follow close on the heels of a series of critical media headlines in recent weeks because of the number of flights […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Business, cancellations, delays, Easyjet, Jean-Marc Thevenaz, lateness

New transport report shows it accounts for 37% Swiss energy use

21/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Use of transport by individuals has doubled in Switzerland from 1970 to 2008, but growing use of transport for merchandise shows an even more dramatic change, tripling in 30 years. The figures are part of a new statistical study of shifts in transport use in Switzerland, released Monday 21 June by […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Business, Scoiety, statistics, Switzerland, transport

EasyJet’s ash detector gets CAA support

04/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

London, England (GenevaLunch) – EasyJet, one of the airlines hardest hit by ash cloud bans, has come up with a detector that could allow pilots to spot too much ash and change course. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority says it is “happy an airline appeared to have found a technical solution, and, although it was not […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: airline, AVOID, Britain, Business, Dr Fred Prata, Easyjet, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, technology, volcanic ash

Flower Power plane for San Francisco rolls out in Zurich

26/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The new Swiss Flower Power plane, a startling change from the normally more discreet Swiss fleet planes, was scheduled to roll onto the tarmac in Zurich late Wednesday afternoon. The company will offer six flights a week to the California city starting 2 June. It has been teasing fans with snapshots […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: airline, Business, Flower Power plane, San Francisco, Swiss, Zurich

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