Chers Amis,
Vous trouverez ci-joint le bulletin ARASITA France n° 44 qui outre le rapport d’activité pour 2022 et le rapport moral et financier, inclut un compte-rendu du déjeuner du 19 novembre qui s’est tenu à Paris dans la célèbre brasserie Mollard, dans le cadre de son somptueux décors Art Nouveau. Je vous en souhaite bonne lecture!

In 2001 I was working in Beijing and joined a group of 20 people on a mission to Qinghai in northern Tibet, to take school supplies and support the children of Tibet. The Swiss ambassador to China had acted as a go-between Tibet and China after the invasion. The Swissair station manager in Beijing, Marcus Shmidt and his wife Anne-Marie carried on…[Read more]

Coming from Indochina I had been appointed Manager for Thailand on the 1st of February
1964 and one of my first jobs at Bangkok was the recruitment of Khun Salak with whom,
although I did not expect it at that time, I was going to work closely with for more than three
decades expanding our organization all over the Far East and Pacific area.
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Chers Amis,
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le bulletin ARASITA France n° 43 de sptembre 2022.. Ce bulletin est consacré au compte-rendu de la réunion d’hommage à Mr Claude Lalanne, le 25 juin dernier, en présence des membresa de sa famille.

Cet article, transmis par Jean-Pierre Gaudard, du journal le Monde, parle d’une exposition d’instruments scientifiques au musée Bernard d’Agesci de Niort. Ruedi Bebié, dont la passion était la collection d’instruments scientifiques et livres anciens a fait don à ce musée de ses collections à ce musée de Niort et a participé à la création…[Read more]

Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]

The first time I went to Tibet the country was already in a transition period
and in full effervescence, the people were handling the move towards a
more modern world. Since that time, like in the whole Far East, the
changes have been tremendous.

In this issue of the SITA communications magazine, the presentation of the actions to improve the quality of service of the SITA network is the main topic. You will also find mention of the film on SITA produced by Lucien Filbiche: Should you have any idea about what happened to that film please contact wikisita! This copy was also provided by…[Read more]

In these three additional issues of the SITA communications magazine, a review of the projects and a presentation of key SITA staff part of the organization are presented. This is also part of the material kindly provided by Nick Morrell whom we thank again.

These are the two first issues of this SITA magazine intended to provide information on SITA network developments to its member airlines and includes a foreword from Georges A. Monniot as well as some technical notes. Special thanks to Nick Morrell, who although based across the pond in Miami has kindly provided this material! Additional…[Read more]

This copy of SITA communications dated November 1981 was kindly provided by Andrée Haubert. Articles and pictures showing in this issue are really telling of SITA dynamic expansion in the 80’s: cutover of RIO SP, Atlanta inauguration. 10th anniversary in Paramaribo, retirement of B. Hussenot and appointment of S. Brun as HR Director.