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Alitalia reportedly casts net wider for partners

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 “Alitalia’s aim is to link up with American Airlines, which after the collapse of talks with British Airways is looking for a European partner and which already has commercial links with Swissair,” an Alitalia spokesman is reported to have told Reuters news agency. Alitalia is looking for partners after the collapse of a planned tie-up…

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Pilot error unlikely, say investigators

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 An official from the Swiss Office for Aircraft Accident Investigations said preliminary investigations suggested a mistake by one of the pilots could be ruled out. He said they were now trying to get a clearer picture of what happened, and were concentrating on questioning as many eyewitnesses as possible. He said first results were unlikely…

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Pilot error not likely, say crash investigators

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 An official from the Swiss Office for Aircraft Accident Investigations said preliminary investigations suggested a mistake by one of the pilots could be ruled out. He said they were now trying to get a clearer picture of what happened, and were concentrating on questioning as many eyewitnesses as possible. He said first results were unlikely…

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More gold to go on sale

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 The sale is part of a coordinated move by 15 European Central Banks and conforms to the government’s new currency and payments law which came into effect on May 1. By the end of this month, the SNB will have already sold around 120 tonnes of gold. Over the next few years, the central bank…

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Swiss Life surprises with profit jump

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 Gross premium income grew by 18 per cent to SFr11 billion. Analysts had expected earnings to rise by around 46 per cent. Swiss Life cited capital investments, operational improvements and successful acquisitions as reasons for the performance. Rene Locher at Bank Sarasin said the numbers were very good, although he added there had been a…

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Swiss businesses ponder software updates

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 Switzerland is among the countries with the highest level of investment in new or upgraded software applications. Software producers find the Orbit fair, which exclusively targets business customers for the first time this year, an easy sell. When it comes to replacing software with newer, improved versions, the Swiss market is hard to beat. Not…

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Investigators still do not know cause of fatal helicopter crash

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 An official from the Swiss Office for Aircraft Accident Investigations said on Wednesday preliminary investigations are still under way and the reasons behind the accident, the worst of its type in Switzerland, remained unclear. Pilot error has not been ruled out, despite earlier reports to the contrary. He said they were now trying to get…

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Indian tourists a growing and welcome market

This content was published on Sep 27, 2000 Over the past five years, the number of Indian tourists to Switzerland has grown by about 15 to 20 per cent on average every year. The trend even seems to be accelerating. About 25 per cent more Indians came to Switzerland in 1998 than in the previous year, and there were about 30 per cent…

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Switzerland and China sign WTO agreement

This content was published on Sep 26, 2000 The Swiss economics minister, Pascal Couchepin, and China’s deputy trade minister, Long Yongtu signed the accord on Tuesday at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. “We have not made any major concessions, although we’ve shown a great deal of flexibility throught the negotiations,” Couchepin told swissinfo after the signing ceremony. The final sticking point was an…

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