Airline News - Europe.Air Atlanta For the international charter airline see Air Atlanta Icelandic Air Atlanta was an airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in the 1980s serving a dozen cities from its hub in Atlanta. Air Atlanta Europe Air Atlanta Europe was an airline based at London Gatwick Airport (LGW), United Kingdom. It provided long term wet-lease contract flights for Excel Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways and others, as well as ad hoc flights tailored to customer requirements. had the undistinguished un·dis·tin·guished adj. 1. a. Marked by no peculiar quality; not distinguished; ordinary: an undistinguished appearance. b. achievement of topping the Air User Council's table for poor punctuality Punctuality Fogg, Phileas completes world circuit at exact minute he wagered he would. [Fr. Lit.: Around the World in Eighty Days] Gilbreths disciplined family brought up to abide by strict, punctual standards. [Am. Lit. during summer 2005. The charter carriers' league also showed Flyjet, European Air Charter, Viking Airlines and Onur Air in the top five for worst delays. More than a third of Air Atlanta's flights were delayed by more than an hour. http://www.caa.co.uk Feb 26, 2006 Air France-KLM Air France-KLM (Euronext Paris: AF, NYSE: AKH) is an airline company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, France. Air France-KLM Group[sup.1]s long-haul growth, including a 19.7% ramp-up in capacity to the Middle East, will come from additional frequencies and larger aircraft. KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) will offer a new destination, Chengdu, with twice-weekly service from Amsterdam. The group will offer 47 weekly flights to China. On its "oil, gas and mining routes" it will add a second daily flight to Houston plus new service to Tehran and possibly Riyadh. It also will increase capacity on routes to Asia and the Americas through cooperation with its SkyTeam partners. Feb 22, 2006 On the European network Air France-KLM Group will add Yerevan (thrice-weekly aboard an AF A320), Leipzig (twice-daily operated by Regional) and Katowice (thrice-daily operated by Brit Air
Brit Air is a regional airline based at Morlaix, Brittany, France, operating scheduled services as an Air France franchise. ) this summer. AF will add second daily flights to Zagreb and Kiev and a daily flight from Paris CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. to Algiers, increase service to Athens and Tel Aviv and suspend its Nantes-London Gatwick service in addition to other operational changes. The group said there "will be very few changes" on its French network save select modifications. Feb 22, 2006 AirBaltic AirBaltic will eliminate business class service on routes from Riga to Bergen, Hamburg, Helsinki and Oslo from March 1. Service on the routes will be all-economy with buy-on-board food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. . Feb 22, 2006 British Airways Competition heats up on transatlantic routes. Airlines have boosted transatlantic capacity over the past years, and now companies are demanding discounts on flights, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times columnist Joe Sharkey writes. Business travelers are also demanding more services from airlines. To win more travelers, British Airways says it will overhaul its business-class cabins. Feb 21, 2006 Globespan Globespan launches Manchester's first-ever service to Cape Town next winter. Using a Boeing 767, the carrier will offer three flights a week to the South African city. Departures from Manchester mark an expansion for the web-based airline, which already flies from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stansted. Globespan will have three cabins available for the new route. http://www.globespan.com Feb 26, 2006 Jet2.com Jet2.com will launch Belfast-Tenerife service next winter. It also will increase its Belfast-Blackpool service to daily throughout the summer. Feb 20, 2006 Lufthansa Lufthansa announced the launch of a twice-weekly Frankfurt-Astana service from March 26 aboard an A330 and a daily Munich-St. Petersburg service from April 22 aboard an A319. Feb 23, 2006 Lufthansa and Air Malta signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. Tuesday in Malta to begin a "bilateral cooperation" that will start with the adjustment of their schedules to give passengers of each airline the "opportunity to increase connections to worldwide destinations." Lufthansa VP Joachim Steinbach said LH hopes to integrate Air Malta into the new Terminal 2 in Munich. In addition, the two are planning to introduce codeshare flights from November. Air Malta offers service to Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne, while LH has been flying to Malta for more than 20 years. Feb 23, 2006 Malev Hungarian Malev Hungarian Airlines and American Airlines, future oneWorld partners, agreed to implement e-ticket capability on each other's flights from March 1. Feb 24, 2006 Norwegian Airlines Norwegian Airlines will increase its thrice-weekly Oslo-Riga service to daily except Saturday from May 1. Feb 23, 2006 Swiss International Swiss International Air Lines Swiss International Air Lines (short: Swiss) is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Kloten Airport (ZRH). will lease an A300-600 from Hapag-Lloyd Express to increase capacity on African services to Malabo, Douala, Yaounde, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Largest city (pop., 1995 est.: 1,747,000), capital, and major port of Tanzania. Founded in 1862 by the sultan of Zanzibar, it came under the German East Africa Co. in 1887. . Feb 24, 2006 Swiss International is expanding its services to and from the USA: The airline will be adding a further daily frequency to its Zurich-New York route from May 1. The new flight, which will be operated with Airbus A330-200 equipment, will depart from Zurich at 13:00 (local time) and arrive in New York JFK at 15:40 (local time). The eastbound service will leave New York JFK at 21:00 and will arrive in Zurich at 10:55 the following morning. All flights will be operated as codeshare services with future Star Alliance partner United Airlines, a previous agreement with American Airlines having expired. Feb 23, 2006 VLM Airlines VLM Airlines will introduce business class service on its six daily flights between Brussels and London City from March 1. The carrier said more than 80% of its passengers travel for business purposes. Feb 24, 2006 Wind Jet Wind Jet of Italy will launch twice-weekly Forli-Moscow Domodedovo service from March 8. It becomes Domodedovo's 16th international carrier. Feb 23, 2006 |
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