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Marcel Ospel, Chairman of the Board of Swiss Bank UBS, left, and Lukas Muehlemann, Chairman of the Board Credit Suisse Group talk with each other and laugh during a press conference in Zurich-Kloten, where a plan was released to save parts of Swiss airline Swissair. Under the plan, which Swissair Group accepted on Monday, October 1, 2001, the company will sell its holding in Crossair to Switzerland's two biggest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse for about 260 million Swiss Francs. In addition, Swissair will transfer many ofits key European and long-haul routes to Crossair, which in effect will become the country's flag carrier. (KEYSTONE/Walter Bieri)