SWISS International Air Lines Ltd., national carrier of Switzerland, emerged from CROSSAIR Ltd. Co. for Regional European Air Transport, founded in 1975 as Business-flyers Basel Ltd.
Business Reports of Crossair Ltd. 1975-2001 (in German)
- Crossair Ltd. 1978-2001
The development of Crossair‘s aircraft fleet has been presented by Markus Seiler and myself in a series of thirteen articles published in the Swiss aviation magazine SkyNews.ch (in German); they can be viewed here:
- Crossair-Fleet (1) : Start with Taxi Flights
- Crossair-Fleet (2) : First Scheduled Flights
- Crossair-Fleet (3) : Replacing delayed Saab
- Crossair-Fleet (4) : Regional-Liner made to measure
- Crossair-Fleet (5) : Not bigger – but better
- Crossair-Fleet (6) : Filler for Swissair
- Crossair-Fleet (7) : Mini-Jumbo for Lugano
- Crossair-Fleet (8) : Brits in lieu of Dutch
- Crossair-Fleet (9) : Faster than a Jet
- Crossair-Fleet (10) : Swede for Switzerland
- Crossair-Fleet (11) : From 60 to 170 Seats
- Crossair-Fleet (12) : Jungle-Jets by Dozens
- Crossair-Fleet (13) : Ordered – never picked up
Last modification 2022.10.30. – DR