Air Canada Chooses UAL Services to Handle Ground Services at New Orleans.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--UAL Services, the worldwide airline support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services division of United Airlines Inc. has been selected by Air Canada to provide airport services for that airline's new service at New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . Air Canada inaugurated service between Toronto and New Orleans Dec. 20, 1998. It has contracted with UAL UAL United Airlines (ICAO code) UAL Unified Accelerator Library (Brookhaven National Laboratory) UAL User Account Lockdown UAL User Access Layer UAL Universal Auxiliary Language UAL User Agent Layer Services to provide passenger check-in, ticket sales, departure gate controls, baggage handling and aircraft receipt and dispatch. Air Canada's schedule calls for 365 flights a year into and out of New Orleans. "We have worked closely with United Airlines for nine years. Currently, UAL Services provides ground handling for Air Canada at 22 stations in the U.S.," said Peter Taylor People called Peter Taylor include:
Air Canada recently honored its top 10 stations for on-time performance. UAL Services provides ground-handling services at five of those stations. Services are also supplied to Air Canada affiliates Air BC and Air Ontario at several stations. Air Canada started operations over 60 years ago and is currently a $5.6 billion (Canadian) airline serving 640 destinations around the world with a fleet totaling 231 aircraft. It is a member of the Star Alliance network of airlines, along with United Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , Thai International, and VARIG VARIG Viação Aérea Rio Grandense SA (Brazilian Airline) . UAL Services offers a comprehensive network of airline support capabilities throughout the world. Founded in 1995, the division of United Airlines is a leader in providing full support in all areas of airline operations, including line and heavy maintenance services, airport services, flight training, materials loans and borrows, asset management and business services. For more information, contact Mike King, King Group Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , telephone 949/253-0999, fax: 949/253-0959, email mking@kinggroup.com. |
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