[新聞] 瑞士航空有意訂購747-8I

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其實這篇報導的是瑞士航空的機隊規劃，但對747-8I有興趣太搶戲了。

1.瑞士航空目前正在考慮訂購747-8I，來取代逐漸老去的A340-300。

2.身為德航的麻吉底迪，買747-8I不是什麼大問題喔。

3.目前瑞士航空擁有13架219席的A340-300，而德航的747-8I為362席。

4.其實同時考慮的機種還有777和A350。

5.目前德航共下了19張747-8I的確認訂單。

6.另外瑞士航空也訂購了30架CSeries。

7.對瑞士航空來說，A380太大了，748/777/350較符合瑞士航空未來的成長。

8.瑞航希望從明年起，可以拿20架110席的CS100取代97席的RJ100s，其他的另作打算。

9.瑞航目前機隊達91架，希望到2016/2020時可以增加到95/100架。


Swiss Mulling 747-8 for Fleet Upgrade Following Parent Lufthansa

By Richard Weiss & Alex Webb - Jan 22, 2013 8:01 AM GMT+0800

Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. said it will consider ordering Boeing Co.
(BA)’s 747-8 as a potential replacement for its aging Airbus SAS A340s,
following the lead of parent Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA), the model’s first
customer.

Swiss could choose to scale up the wide-body fleet to add capacity as part of
a fleet overhaul, with the 747 offering 362 seats in the layout chosen by
Lufthansa, versus 219 in its own A340-300s. Boeing’s 777 and the new Airbus
A350 are also in the running, Chief Executive Officer Harry Hohmeister said.
Enlarge image Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. CEO Harry Hohmeister

Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Harry Hohmeister
said, “We’d rather grow with bigger planes. For Swiss, the A380 is hardly
an option, but we’ll look at the Boeing 747-8 and 777 and the Airbus A350. We
’ll have to see what makes sense.” Photographer: Ralph Orlowski/Bloomberg

Lufthansa became the first buyer for the passenger version of the 747-8,
known as the Intercontinental, with an order for 19 of the planes in 2006.
Swiss is also working with Bombardier Inc. (BBD/B) on specifications for the
30 CSeries jets it has ordered, and that model, too, could win more purchases
for a wider application across the group, Hohmeister said.

“We want to substitute our A340 fleet at some point,” he said in an
interview in Frankfurt, where Lufthansa has its hub. “We’d rather grow with
bigger planes. For Swiss, the A380 is hardly an option, but we’ll look at
the Boeing 747-8 and 777 and the Airbus A350. We’ll have to see what makes
sense.”

Basel-based Swiss has 13 A340s in its fleet, offering eight seats in first
class, 47 in business and 164 in economy and used on routes including Zurich
to Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Lufthansa’s
747-8s have eight seats in first, 92 in business and 262 in coach.
High-End Pitch

While the contribution of operating profit to Lufthansa by Swiss fell 13
percent to 259 million euros in 2011, the unit remained the group’s most
profitable passenger airline. Operating profit was 6.6 percent of sales,
compared with 1.6 percent at Lufthansa’s passenger business, while Austrian
Airlines and Germanwings had operating losses.

Swiss, taken over by Lufthansa in 2006, has generated consecutive annual
operating profits ever since that year.

Hohmeister said that Swiss’s strategy aims to make it “fit to face” the
competition on key Asian routes and from Middle Eastern carriers such as
Dubai-based Emirates, Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi and Qatar Airways Ltd.

“We’ve positioned our brand as premium, we don’t want to be a cattle-train
carrier,” the CEO said. Most of Swiss’s inter-continental routes are
operating with about 90 percent of seats occupied, he said.

Lufthansa, which ordered the 747-8 to replace its 747-400s, received the
first to be delivered to an airline by Boeing last April and has since taken
three more. The German carrier has fitted the planes with its first flat-bed
seats and a brown and grey business cabin aimed at producing a “living-room
feel.”
CSeries Customization

A follow-on order from Lufthansa for Swiss would boost a 747-8 order book
that amounts to only 40 planes, 12 of which have been delivered. The last new
contract, for five aircraft, came from Air China Ltd. (753) on Sept. 6.
Boeing also has orders for 67 747-8F cargo variants, of which 28 have been
handed over.

The 110-seat CS100s that Swiss has on order will arrive from next year.
Twenty of the planes will replace the carrier’s 97-seat BAE Systems Plc
(BA/) Avro RJ100s, with the deployment plan for the other 10 yet to be
decided. Lufthansa has options with the model’s Canadian manufacturer for a
further 30.

“We’ll develop it with Bombardier and if other Lufthansa units want it, it’
ll be similar or the same,” Hohmeister said.

Swiss has 91 aircraft in its fleet, 28 of them wide-bodies, according to its
website. The CEO said the total is likely to rise to about 95 by 2016 and 100
as of 2020, though there’s not necessarily any aspiration to reach 120, with
the focus on bigger planes more pressing.
Franc Challenge

Spending on fleet renewal is likely to total 3 billion francs, Hohmeister
said, of which 1.5 billion francs is already committed on the CSeries. That
need can’t be met simply from earnings and is spurring cost cuts, he said.

Hohmeister said he plans to deepen a savings drive as the franc’s gains
against the euro hurt the value of his airline’s earnings contribution to
Lufthansa’s business.

Swiss may end up contributing 160 million francs to its parent’s “Score”
 efficiency plan, almost 40 percent more than first planned, to meet its
targeted share of group savings.

“We must ensure we’re not running to stand still,” the CEO said. “The
appreciation of the franc is dramatic for us. It’s a unique disadvantage no
other airline in Europe suffers from. We’ll see where we can cut costs in
procurement or information technology. We may also have to cut staff at some
point.”

Lufthansa CEO Christoph Franz plans to lift operating profit to a record 2.3
billion euros ($3.1 billion) by 2015, aided by a 1.5 billion contribution
from Score.

Hohmeister said that Swiss needs to consider what it will do if the franc
appreciates toward parity with the euro. Earnings at the unit fell in 2011,
though it was still the highest-margin business among Lufthansa’s airline
assets. Profit fell again in 2012, the CEO said, declining to give a figure.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-22/swiss-mulling-747-8-for-fleet-
upgrade-following-parent-lufthansa.html

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