Airline News - Europe.May 6, 2007 Aeroflot Aeroflot launched weekly Sochi-Frankfurt flights. Apr 30, 2007 Bmi UK's Bmi To Expand Transatlantic Flights British airline bmi said on Wednesday it would expand its long-haul flights to take advantage of liberalized transatlantic flying, after boosting operating profit Operating profit (or loss) Revenue from a firm's regular activities less costs and expenses and before income deductions. operating profit See operating income. by 85 percent in 2006. May 2, 2007 British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. Trans-Atlantic fares fall as competition increases Business-class fares on trans-Atlantic routes have dropped, The 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' Joe Sharkey writes. Startups MaxJet and SilverJet say they are enlarging the pool of business-class travelers on routes from the U.S. to Europe. Sharkey notes it is still possible to pay thousands of dollars for business-class service. "Yesterday, I checked walk-up fares on two international airlines that have what are considered to be top business-class service, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. They were just over $10,000," he writes. May 1, 2007 First Choice Airways First Choice Airways launched weekly Bristol-Orlando Sanford flights aboard a Boeing 767-300. Apr 30, 2007 LTU LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology; formerly Luleå Tekniska Högskola) LTU Lithuania LTU La Trobe University (Australia) LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH LTU launched twice-weekly Dusseldorf-Las Vegas service and increased flights to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to five-times-weekly from two. May 4, 2007 Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines yesterday expanded their codeshare arrangement covering each airline's Munich-Istanbul and Munich-Ankara services and Lufthansa's MUC-Izmir flights. THY will operate out of MUC's Terminal 2 in a joint venture with the German carrier. Effective with the winter schedule, Turkish Airlines will place its code on more than a dozen LH services to the US and LH will do likewise on Turkish Airlines flights to the Middle East, former USSR USSR: see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. countries and within Turkey. May 4, 2007 S7 Airlines S7 Airlines transported 906,000 passengers in the first quarter, an 8% increase from the year-ago period. RPKs were up 2% to 2.3 billion. May 1, 2007 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. Scandinavian Airlines SAS Scandinavian Airlines said long-haul operations from Copenhagen were returning to normal Friday following a three-day wildcat strike An employee work stoppage that is not authorized by the Labor Union to which the employees belong. When employees join a union, they give the union the right to collectively bargain with their employers concerning the terms and conditions of work. by local cabin crew cabin crew cabin n (Aviat) → équipage m that ended Thursday night. It cancelled 28 flights on Friday. Apr 30, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Apr 30, 2007 |
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