
…costs me $262 – WOW! As I’m now in Bangkok (BKK) I needed a new biometric passport not because my old one was expired but due to the fact I had no more free pages. As German living in Switzerland it was also not easy to get a new...

Passport of SWISSAIR Chief Pilot and Pionier Ernst Nyffenegger issued in 1945. Outstanding aviation document from the early beginning of the swiss carrier – SWISSAIR! Today known as SWISS (which belongs to Lufthansa). I found another picture from Nyffenegger as young pilot in 1927 flying a Fokker FIII at...
Source: SF (Swiss TV) with 54 photos Wie der Pass rot wurde… Einen Pass zu haben, erscheint uns als selbstverständlich. Dabei gibt es das kleine Büchlein noch keine 100 Jahre. Und seine mittlerweile klassische Farbe Rot bekam der Schweizer Pass auch erst vor 50 Jahren verpasst. Das Wort «Pass»...