Swiss ha comprato oggi Edelweiss Air la compagnia charter del tour operator Kuoni.
Edelweiss Air ha in flotta 4 Airbus : 3x 320-200 e 1 A330-200.
Edelweiss Air ha in flotta 4 Airbus : 3x 320-200 e 1 A330-200.
Swiss compra Edelweiss Air
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Dal sito di Swiss :
Kuoni and SWISS enter into strategic partnership
Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd. and Swiss International Air Lines are to embark on a comprehensive strategic partnership. The customers of both companies will benefit from the wider range of products and services that the collaboration should provide. The partnership will also enable Kuoni and SWISS to focus on their respective core competencies. Kuoni will offer its range of hotels via SWISS.COM, and SWISS will acquire Kuoni’s leisure airline Edelweiss Air.
The comprehensive strategic partnership will enable Kuoni and SWISS to make optimum use of their respective strengths and capabilities and exploit new synergies; and the wider range of products and services it provides will benefit both partners’ customers. Under the planned collaboration, Kuoni will offer an extensive range of hotel accommodations via the SWISS.COM website from January 1, 2009 onwards. Kuoni’s hotel range currently extends to more than 15 000 selected establishments in all categories all over the world.
The SWISS.COM website will allow private individuals to choose their preferred hotel at their SWISS or Edelweiss Air destination and book it directly. The range of hotels offered will also extend to destinations beyond the present SWISS network. The new facility will enable customers to combine their desired flights and hotel accommodation and book the whole arrangement online. In the past, these facilities were offered solely to travel agencies and other tour operators. Under the new collaboration, they will now be available to private customers, too.
The new Kuoni/SWISS partnership will also result in a closer collaboration between SWISS and Edelweiss Air to which each carrier will contribute its own core competencies. Edelweiss Air’s aircraft will continue to be operated by Edelweiss Air personnel. And, under a broader and comprehensive collaboration agreement, Kuoni will buy-in seat capacity on SWISS and Edelweiss Air leisure flights. In addition, individual seats on Edelweiss Air services will also be offered for sale via SWISS.COM, travel offices, call centres and the kuoni.ch website.
“This collaboration really is a win/win situation for everyone involved,” says SWISS CEO Christoph Franz, “and our customers will benefit from a wider range of products and services.” “Edelweiss Air will remain Edelweiss Air – with its new sister SWISS, too,” adds Harry Hohmeister, Chief Network & Distribution Officer at SWISS.
Kuoni views the new partnership as a further milestone in implementing its own overall strategy, as Max E. Katz, CFO of the Kuoni Group and spokesman for the Group Executive Board, explains. “Our sale of Edelweiss Air marks a further consistent step in our strategy of not owning assets such as aircraft or hotels,” Katz says. “We aim to focus on organising, advising on and distributing leisure travel products and, in our destination management activities, on organising and selling land arrangements at the destination. Our new strategic partnership with SWISS will also give us access to new customers in new markets for our hotel arrangements.”
SWISS and Edelweiss Air have served largely complementary destinations to date. By amalgamating their activities, the partners can achieve sizeable synergies in terms of distributing their capacities and optimising their flight schedules. The parties agreed not to divulge the purchase price involved. In view of the organisational and system modifications required, the collaboration is expected to enter into full and tangible effect with the start of the winter schedules at the end of October 2008.
Edelweiss Air should continue to operate as a separate airline under its new owner with its own management, fleet and crews. The “Edelweiss Air” brand, which was launched in 1995, will be retained. The present management team and all 240 further personnel will continue to ensure that the company sustains its overall success and its quality leisure travel product; Karl Kistler will remain Chief Executive Officer; and Edelweiss Air will continue to operate its three short-haul Airbus A320 aircraft and its long-haul Airbus A330-200.
The new strategic partnership between Kuoni and SWISS is subject to the approval of the relevant authorities.
Dopo l'esperienza di Swiss Sun, la compagnia di bandiera elvetica torna ad avere il proprio in-house charter carrier, in stretto accordo con un grande nome quale quello di Kuoni.
Kuoni and SWISS enter into strategic partnership
Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd. and Swiss International Air Lines are to embark on a comprehensive strategic partnership. The customers of both companies will benefit from the wider range of products and services that the collaboration should provide. The partnership will also enable Kuoni and SWISS to focus on their respective core competencies. Kuoni will offer its range of hotels via SWISS.COM, and SWISS will acquire Kuoni’s leisure airline Edelweiss Air.
The comprehensive strategic partnership will enable Kuoni and SWISS to make optimum use of their respective strengths and capabilities and exploit new synergies; and the wider range of products and services it provides will benefit both partners’ customers. Under the planned collaboration, Kuoni will offer an extensive range of hotel accommodations via the SWISS.COM website from January 1, 2009 onwards. Kuoni’s hotel range currently extends to more than 15 000 selected establishments in all categories all over the world.
The SWISS.COM website will allow private individuals to choose their preferred hotel at their SWISS or Edelweiss Air destination and book it directly. The range of hotels offered will also extend to destinations beyond the present SWISS network. The new facility will enable customers to combine their desired flights and hotel accommodation and book the whole arrangement online. In the past, these facilities were offered solely to travel agencies and other tour operators. Under the new collaboration, they will now be available to private customers, too.
The new Kuoni/SWISS partnership will also result in a closer collaboration between SWISS and Edelweiss Air to which each carrier will contribute its own core competencies. Edelweiss Air’s aircraft will continue to be operated by Edelweiss Air personnel. And, under a broader and comprehensive collaboration agreement, Kuoni will buy-in seat capacity on SWISS and Edelweiss Air leisure flights. In addition, individual seats on Edelweiss Air services will also be offered for sale via SWISS.COM, travel offices, call centres and the kuoni.ch website.
“This collaboration really is a win/win situation for everyone involved,” says SWISS CEO Christoph Franz, “and our customers will benefit from a wider range of products and services.” “Edelweiss Air will remain Edelweiss Air – with its new sister SWISS, too,” adds Harry Hohmeister, Chief Network & Distribution Officer at SWISS.
Kuoni views the new partnership as a further milestone in implementing its own overall strategy, as Max E. Katz, CFO of the Kuoni Group and spokesman for the Group Executive Board, explains. “Our sale of Edelweiss Air marks a further consistent step in our strategy of not owning assets such as aircraft or hotels,” Katz says. “We aim to focus on organising, advising on and distributing leisure travel products and, in our destination management activities, on organising and selling land arrangements at the destination. Our new strategic partnership with SWISS will also give us access to new customers in new markets for our hotel arrangements.”
SWISS and Edelweiss Air have served largely complementary destinations to date. By amalgamating their activities, the partners can achieve sizeable synergies in terms of distributing their capacities and optimising their flight schedules. The parties agreed not to divulge the purchase price involved. In view of the organisational and system modifications required, the collaboration is expected to enter into full and tangible effect with the start of the winter schedules at the end of October 2008.
Edelweiss Air should continue to operate as a separate airline under its new owner with its own management, fleet and crews. The “Edelweiss Air” brand, which was launched in 1995, will be retained. The present management team and all 240 further personnel will continue to ensure that the company sustains its overall success and its quality leisure travel product; Karl Kistler will remain Chief Executive Officer; and Edelweiss Air will continue to operate its three short-haul Airbus A320 aircraft and its long-haul Airbus A330-200.
The new strategic partnership between Kuoni and SWISS is subject to the approval of the relevant authorities.
Dopo l'esperienza di Swiss Sun, la compagnia di bandiera elvetica torna ad avere il proprio in-house charter carrier, in stretto accordo con un grande nome quale quello di Kuoni.
Quindi Edelweiss si appresta a diventare il ramo charter di Swiss o semplicemente a Swiss servivano 4 aerei? 
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Quindi Edelweiss si appresta a diventare il ramo charter di Swiss o semplicemente a Swiss servivano 4 aerei?
Edelweiss continuerà regolarmente nella sua attività charter indipendentemente ed in stretta collaborazione con le operazioni charter di Swiss.
Cambia solo l'assetto finanziario e si attueranno sinergie di mercato tra Kuoni e Swiss.
Il resto dei vantaggi è ben spiegato nell'articolo inglese che trovi sopra.
Swiss compra, ma dietro di lei c' è LH che ha fatto la spesa di charter in Germania nei giorni scorsi.
Perche' quest'anno Cagliari sta avendo solo riduzioni..... :| e in piu' 0 novita'... Se continua così...
Lo scenario è altamente interessante : Lufthansa+TUI+Kuoni...e chi li ferma più ?
Si dovrebbe giungere nei prossimi anni a questi raggruppamenti con a capo i due giganti teutonici sia nel settore aviation che del tour operating :
LUFTHANSA e TUI (e KUONI)
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Regional (LH Cityline, Contact Air, Augsburg Airways, Air Dolomiti, Eurowings)
- Tui Airlines (Tuifly, Thomsonfly, Jetairfly, Arkefly, Tuifly Nordic, Corsairfly, Jet4you)
- First Choice Airways
- Germanwings
- Swiss
- Edelweiss
- Sunexpress
- Luxair
- JetBlue (Usa)
- Bmi
- bmibaby
- Lot
- Centralwings
AIR BERLIN e THOMAS COOK (e HOTELPLAN)
- Air Berlin
- Niki
- Ltu
- Belair
- Germania Airlines
- Condor
- LGW
- Thomas Cook Airlines UK
- Thomas Cook Airlines BE
- MyTravel Airways UK (già inglobata in TCX con l'estate 2008)
- MyTravel Airways A/S Scandinavia
I tedeschi stanno capendo che l'unione fa la forza e ormai ogni mese si assiste a nuove acquisizioni o fusioni.
[OT] In Italia invece si vende la compagnia di bandiera ai Francesi, tenendosi i nanerottoli.
Come politica industriale siamo grandi.
Il tempo passa e mi pare opportuno aggiornare i dati. La compagnia zurighese EDELWEISS è di fatto divenuta la "sezione charter" di SWISS. Ricordo in proposito che SWISS, appena creata, comprendeva già un settore charter i cui aerei portavano la scritta "SWISS SUN". Ma fu una subcompagnia che non ebbe seguito. Oggi EDELWEISS ha una flotta composta da sei aerei:
3 Airbus A320-214 immatricolati HB-IHX, HB-IHY, HB-IHZ
1 Airbus A330-223 immatricolato HB-IQI, entrato in servizio con livrea EDELWEISS nell'ottobre 2010, ex SWISS
1 Airbus A330-343E immatricolato HB-JHQ, numero di costr. 1193, trasferito da Tolosa a Zurigo il 18 febbraio 2011, affittato dal konzern Lufthansa (lunga scadenza)
Il jet a lungo raggio Airbus A330-243 immatricolato HB-IQZ è stato venduto alla compagnia canadese Air Transat. L'acquisizione da parte di SWISS ha provocato una stabilizzazione dell'attività di EDELWEISS, compagnia che, ancora un paio di anni fa, meditava il ritiro dal mercato del lungo raggio. Al contrario si sta verificando un'espansione della rete con nuove destinazioni in Cina e negli Stati Uniti. Possibile infatti una linea per la Florida (Fort Myers/Tampa) a partire dall'estate 2012. Probabile pure, a medio termine, la sostituzione dell' A330 ex SWISS con un nuovo apparecchio della versione -300.
3 Airbus A320-214 immatricolati HB-IHX, HB-IHY, HB-IHZ
1 Airbus A330-223 immatricolato HB-IQI, entrato in servizio con livrea EDELWEISS nell'ottobre 2010, ex SWISS
1 Airbus A330-343E immatricolato HB-JHQ, numero di costr. 1193, trasferito da Tolosa a Zurigo il 18 febbraio 2011, affittato dal konzern Lufthansa (lunga scadenza)
Il jet a lungo raggio Airbus A330-243 immatricolato HB-IQZ è stato venduto alla compagnia canadese Air Transat. L'acquisizione da parte di SWISS ha provocato una stabilizzazione dell'attività di EDELWEISS, compagnia che, ancora un paio di anni fa, meditava il ritiro dal mercato del lungo raggio. Al contrario si sta verificando un'espansione della rete con nuove destinazioni in Cina e negli Stati Uniti. Possibile infatti una linea per la Florida (Fort Myers/Tampa) a partire dall'estate 2012. Probabile pure, a medio termine, la sostituzione dell' A330 ex SWISS con un nuovo apparecchio della versione -300.
E io che ero convinto fosse già di proprietà di LX. Non ci capisco proprio na cippa....:sconfortato:
No, EDELWEISS era nata come compagnia charter indipendente il 19 ottobre 1995 e come particolare emanazione della compagnia di viaggi svizzera KUONI. Quest'ultima ha acquisito il controllo completo del capitale nel marzo del 2007. Poi, per migliorare il tasso d' occupazione dei posti sugli aerei, ha ceduto la compagnia a SWISS. EDELWEISS mantiene una sua gestione separata come per il passato e, soprattutto, la bella e apprezzata livrea dei suoi aerei. Ha il nuovo vantaggio di "pescare" nuovi aerei in breve tempo nel grande calderone che è il "Konzern Lufthansa".
Che poi comunque Edelweiss più o meno è sempre stata collegata alla swiss, ancor di più dopo la fusione infatti alcuni voli Edel, per CUN,HAV,SSH,CAI,MLE, estivi e invernali sono in codeshare con swiss ! Una cara coppia di amici ha fatto il viaggio di nozze VCE-ZRH-SSH con Swiss/Edelweiss !
La cosa interessante di questa integrazione è che si possono comprare i voli verso destinazioni Edelweiss air utilizzanto i voli di federaggio swiss per ZRH.