SWISS (Airline)

LC control no.	n 2006036079
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	SWISS (Airline) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Swiss International Air Lines
See also	Component of merger: Crossair (Airline) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Component of merger: Swissair *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	2002-03-31
Associated country	Switzerland
Field of activity	Air travel
Found in	Dosé, André. Sturmflug, 2004: t.p. (SWISS) p. 143, etc. (founded Mar. 31, 2002 as a merger of Crossair and Swissair) Wikipedia, viewed 13 July 2017: under Swiss International Air Lines (Swiss International Air Lines AG (short Swiss, stylized as SWISS) is the national airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Airport, with a focus city operation at Geneva Airport. The airline was formed after the 2001 bankruptcy of Swissair, Switzerland's former flag carrier) under Crossair (Crossair Ltd. Co. for Regional European Air Transport (German: Crossair AG für europäischen Regionalluftverkehr) was a regional airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland. It became Swiss International Air Lines after taking over most of the assets of Swissair following that airline's bankruptcy in 2002; founded 18 November 1978, ceased operations 31 March 2002)