Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 5756 times:
Yesterday I read in the swiss newspaper "Blick" that they will sell the old Swissair stuff! A total of 6,400,000 pieces are for sale, 300 tons of nostalgia. The sale will start next thursday. 2,000,000 forks, knifes and spoons, 75,000 sleepingbags and pillows, ...
Heres the story (only in german):
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 3, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5639 times:
Thanks for that link, Airways, that's really great! I think you meant to write "They start at the 17th of October", at least this is what they write on the hossliquidator's website.
I think I'll go, too. But you're right not to go there on the first day, as there is only space for 200 people at the same time. And I'm sure that many Swiss want to buy Swissair stuff. So I'm thinking about going there on wednesday, 23rd October, to buy a Swissair ramper's jacket
Sabena332, of course I would prefer Sabena, too. But you can be sure there won't be any Sabena stuff. Btw, I already acquired some old Sabena cutlery.
Ikarus From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 3524 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5629 times:
From said web page:
Inflightmaterial:
90% neues Inflight-Material mit und ohne Swissair-branding mehrheitlich der First und der Business Class: 90% new, with/without Swissair-branding, majority from First/Business Class
720'000 Hutschenreuther Porzellan Speiseteller, flach und tief, in den Grössen Ø 28/24/19 und 15 cm, Salatieren, Schalen, Kaffee- und Teetassen (Mugs), Tassenunterteller, Gratinformen, Patéformen, Bowlen usw. der First Class; Langenthal Porzellan „Poesie“ Speiseteller, Tassen, Gratinformen, Bowlen usw. der Business und Eco Class
720,000 porcellain plates (various sizes), dishes, cups, mugs, bowls etc.
1'600'000 Chromstahl Messer, Gabeln, Suppenlöffel, Kaffee/Mokkalöffel u.a. im Design Poesie der Business Class
1,600,000 chromed steel knives, forks, spoons etc. in Business Class "Poesie" Design
120'000 Kristallgläser für Rotwein, Weisswein, Champagner, Spirituosen und Wasser der First Class; Salz- und Pfefferstreuer; Olivenölflaschen usw.
120,000 crystal glasses for various wines, champagnes and spirits, salt and pepper dispensers, olive oil bottles
260'000 Gläser für Rot- und Weisswein sowie für Wasser mit dazupassenden Gläserrechen (Halter) für 28 Gläser
260,000 glasses for wine or water with glass holders for 28 glasses
160'000 Flaschen Rot- und Weissweine (Airlineabfüllungen) wie Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir, Mayoral, Fendant, Sauvignon blanc, Bourgogne Blanc etc. Champagner Lanson Black Label, Freixenet Cordon Negro; Spirituosen wie Baccardi, Whiskey, Gordon’s Gin, Martini, Bailyes, Cognac, Porto (alles Airlineabfüllungen) usw.
160,000 bottles of red and white wines (Airline brands), Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir, Mayoral, Fendant, Sauvignon blanc, Bourgogne Blanc etc. Champagner Lanson Black Label, Freixenet Cordon Negro; spirits including Baccardi, Whiskey, Gordon’s Gin, Martini, Bailyes, Cognac, Porto
360'000 versilbertes First Class Tafelbesteck (u.a. Berndorf) wie Messer, Gabeln, Suppenlöffel, Gourmet Löffel, Dessertgabeln, Dessertmesser, Kuchengabeln, Kaffeelöffel und Mokkalöffel; versilberte First Class Weinkühler, Kaffeekrüge, Milchkrüge, Zuckerdosen, Kaffee/Teekrüge, Tabletts quadratisch und oval usw.
360,000 silver-covered first class cutlery (Berndorf and others), incl. knives, forks, soup spoons, gourmet spoons, dessert forks, dessert knives, .... silver-covered wine cooler, coffee mugs, milk mugs, sugar cans, tablets etc.
75'000 First Class Schlafsäcke, rechts und links schliessend; Business Class Wolldecken; First Class Kopfkissenbezüge und Kopfkissen usw.
75,000 First Class sleeping bags, Business Class wool duvets, First Class pillow covers and pillows
360'000 Amenity Kits der First Class (Nachtsets u.a. mit Zahnbürste, Haarbürste, Pflegeprodukten); Zahnbürsten Sets mit Paste; Seifen; Juvena Eau de Toilette, Face & Body Moist; Rasierer mit integriertem Schaum usw.
360,000 Amenity Kits (gee, that'll drive the collector's price down a bit. Certainly won't find them on ebay, I guess. Perhaps M O'Leary should buy them and sell them aboard Ryanair flights at a profit?
145'000 Serviertablare in verschiedenen Grössen, z.T. mit Stoff Einlagematten; Chromstahl Brotkörbe usw.
145,000 serving tablets, bread baskets
Zurzeit sind noch Schiffs-Container aus verschiedenen Destinationen unterwegs in die Schweiz, deshalb gelangen unter anderem folgende Inflightmaterialien später zum Verkauf: Servier Trolleys der First Class; Sales Trolleys Transparent; Flugzeug Trolleys fullsize und halfsize; Alkoholika; Bekleidung; Werbeartikel wie Damen und Herrenuhren Longines, Feldstecher, Wecker usw. – Genauer Zeitpunkt wird auf unserer Website www.hoss-liquidatior.ch publiziert!
Lots more containers full of stuff on the way, updates about availability on their website, coming soon: serving trolleys, duty free trolleys, alcoholic drinks, clothing, merchandising and duty free wares (watches, alarm clocks etc.)
135'000 Tischtücher und Servietten der First Class, Servierschürzen, Hot Towels usw.
16,000 travel games, CD wallets, leather wallets, writing blocks, air mattresses, beach towels, post cards (!!!!), suitcase labels, Ski-race-suits, Ski-helmets, sports bags, bags, biros, letter-openers etc.
Freie Besichtigung und Verkauf:
täglich ab Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002
durchgehend von 9.00 bis 17.00 Uhr (Samstag von 9 bis 15 Uhr)
Grindelstrasse 9, 8303 Bassersdorf ZH
(Kantonsstrasse zwischen Kloten und Bassersdorf, Richtung Industrie Grindel / Achtung nur beschränkte Parkmöglichkeiten / Öffentliche Verkehrmittel: Buslinie 660 von Bahnhof Bassersdorf und Flughafen / Haltestelle Grindel)
Nur Barzahlung! Bei grösseren Beträgen Anzahlung möglich!
Right, anyone interested in founding an airline? Anyway. How can an airline as small as Swissair have 100,000s of stock items and duty free stuff (f)lying around when they go bankrupt? Isn't that a bit too much?
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 5, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5614 times:
Damn, I just read that the uniforms (incl. ramper's jackets) are still somewhere in Asia, inside ship's containers on their way back to Switzerland - they won't arrive before late October.
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 7, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5602 times:
VASI, as I see in you profile you're coming from Stuttgart, too. Don't you think it would be fun to go shopping there together? The reason why I chose wednesday 23rd was only because I guess that you have to queue very long on a saturday, but if you don't mind about that, I can arrange a day off on next saturday. And: the money for fuel that we save when driving there together, we can spend in additional Swissair items What do you think?
VASI From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 192 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5584 times:
Ndebele, that would be really nice! I can also arrange Wednesday, 23'rd, will be not problem at all! Also Monday and Tuesday would be possible, just have to check when I have to go to Munich! Don't care about the fuel!
My only fear was, that the best items are already gone by the middle of the week.
As I know you work at the airport in STR, will go CPH eventaully on Thursday. Are you at the cehck in counter then?
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 9, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 5558 times:
Excellent! Most of the time I'm working in the office, where nobody cares if I take a day off. My only check-in days this month are monday 21st and tuesday 22nd October, these are the only shifts that I can't change. So any day is fine for me, except these two days.
At least on the liquidator's website they say that there are enough items, they don't expect to be sold-out so early. And, some items have still not arrived in Bassersdorf yet. Saturday will probably be the busiest day. But as already mentioned, nearly any day is fine for me.
You can find my eMail address in my profile. As for next thursday, tell me what flight you'll be taking, and I'll try to come to the gate.
Airways From Switzerland, joined Mar 2001, 880 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 5497 times:
Ndebele, sure you're right. It's not the 27th. I mixed up two dates. I plan to go there early next Friday, but sure it will be very crowded there. I'll see, it also depends on my working schedule.
Vasi From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 192 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 5367 times:
Ndebele- I will contact you today via e-mail. It is unsure whether I will fly to CPH, will know tomorrow for sure. Are you already at the airport at 07:15 am, as the plane is leaving at 07:50 am. Will come back with the SK 667 at roughly 09:30 pm the same day.
I think overnext Wednesday is the best occassion then. Will come back to you!
Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 7712 posts, RR: 55 Reply 12, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 5263 times:
Sabena needed no help from anyone, let alone SR, to fly themselves into the ground. They didn't make a profit since 1955. And you think it was all Swissair's fault? Get REAL.
fly Saha Air 707s daily from Tehran's downtown Mehrabad to Mashhad, Kish Island and Ahwaz
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 13, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 5156 times:
So today the sale started. Has anybody been there already? I'll probably be there on saturday (despite expecting a long queue especially on saturdays).
Two a.net members asked me to buy some jackets/souvenirs for them. Their problem: We really don't know what prices to expect - cheap because Swissair is bankrupt and they need the money? Or rather expensive, because it's a souvenir, and maybe some Swiss people are willing to pay much money for a piece of good old Swissair. Who has a clue, how much do you have to pay for e.g. a ramp jacket? What do you think?
DALelite From Switzerland, joined Jun 2000, 1770 posts, RR: 28 Reply 14, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 5121 times:
ndebele, i wasn't there , but i saw on tv the people standing in line. the
first one to arrive there was at 4a.m., they only allow approx. 50 customers
into the hall at once. items are high priced!!! they said that sr always went for the best and that they want to make money out off it. rape jackets or overalls go for sfr. 400.-. all the silverware (first-class) go for sfr. 10.- a piece. i first planned to go. even my mom, not very interessed in the airline
stuff also wanted to go. but after what we saw on tv we decided not to go.
beside i have lots of silverware and sr glasses already. anybody interessted
in sr items go to www.ebay.ch and then under sammeln&seltenes then
luftfahrt&zeppelin or transport and there you will also find interessting sr
things to collect.
regards DALelite
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 16, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 5099 times:
Thanks for that interesting information, DALelite! Damn, I really wanted to buy I ramper's jacket (is rape jacket really the appropriate word?), but 400sfr? I'm not sure if my part-time job salery allows expenses like this Well but I'm sure I'll find a nice souvenir, maybe something cheaper.
"Swissair - Qualität gewinnt!" ("quality wins"), a Swissair slogan of the 1980s
Standby87 From Switzerland, joined Jul 2001, 535 posts, RR: 3 Reply 18, posted (10 years 7 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4988 times:
Sent Mrs Standby on the 1st day - Queues were 3 hours long. Horrendous.
She was not happy. Guess who had to do all the housework after that?
She only bought 5 x Swissair wine glasses for 1 CHF, some small bottles of wine and some table tissues. The rest she thought was overpriced tat eg. non-slip plates that stop the food coming off (useful only if you live in Manchester or other earthquake zones) for 10 bloody Francs and weren't even Swissair branded. Other Brits have also been and thought the prices were too high. Maybe we're just mean (or poor), but the Swiss locals have been lapping it up loading up cars and spending hundreds of Francs.
My boss went the other night, no queue at 1630hrs and we got rewarded with a mega box of the Swissair chocolates the next day to share out. Gosh, I miss them chocolates...
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8771 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (10 years 7 months 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 4949 times:
Anyway I can access the liquidation from the Internet? I wouldn't mind picking up a bunch of safety cards for 1 CHF each (its less than $14 USD for 20 safeties...)
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Well but I'm sure I'll find a nice souvenir, maybe something cheaper.
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