Zürich airport, Kloten. The airport opened in 1953 and is the largest airport in Switzerland and hub to Swiss International Airlines. Swiss, that rose from the ashes of Swissair, Switzerlands national airline, that collapsed in 2001. The grounding of Swissair was a huge chock to the Swiss people that for the first time made them realise that the Swiss economy wasn't as intouchable as they had always thought. In 2008, 22 million passengers passed the airport of Zürich. This is in average 60500 passengers per day (read more).
The Treaty of Lisbon has now been signed and it looks as if we will get a president in Europe. Maybe Kissinger´s old problem will finally be solved and Europe will get one phone number? It is still very hard to imagine Europe speaking with one voice but if Switzerland would join maybe Khadhafi would not play around with Merz as a mean older brother and finally liberate the hostages in Libya.
The vaccinations against the swineflu are now taking place all over Europe but for some strange reason Switzerland are weeks behind the other countries. Do we know something about the vaccine that the others don´t? Do we somehow consider the vaccination in the other countries as additional clinical studies? Should we be comforted about this or worried that the flu will get us before we´re protected? In Sweden a hockey team managed to be considered as a risk group and got the flu vaccine before everybody else, now they win the games in the national series as the other teams are short of players due to the flu.
well, Switzerland is always ages behing other countries...
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