Airline News - Europe.Aug 20, 2007 Aer Lingus Aer Lingus is Ireland's national airline. Based in Dublin, it operates 41 Airbus aircraft serving Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East. The airline is 28% owned by the Irish government; it was floated on the Dublin and London Stock Exchanges on 2 October 2006, Aer Lingus says it will operate a skeleton European service using hired aircraft next week (August 21, 22) if planned strikes by its flight crews take place. The Irish carrier[sup.1]s chief executive, Dermot Mannion Dermot Mannion is the Chief executive officer of Aer Lingus, Ireland's national airline. Mannion was born in 1958 in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland, one of eight children (four brothers and three sisters). He attended school at St. , wrote to trade union Impact, representing 480 Aer Lingus pilots and received a reply this morning, although its contents have not yet been divulged. Aug 17, 2007 Aer Lingus Aer Lingus said it "hopes to operate a limited schedule of European flights" next week during a two-day pilot strike called in protest of its decision to open a Belfast base. The airline said it has agreed to wet-lease "a number" of aircraft for Aug. 21-22. Aug 16, 2007 Aer Lingus Bomb Hoax Delays Aer Lingus Plane In Spain. Passengers were asked to leave an Aer Lingus flight on Thursday after a bomb threat shortly before it was due to leave Malaga Airport for Dublin, the airline and Spain's airport authority said. Aug 16, 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. British Airways in South American rethink With an 88% load factor last year on its London - Sao Paulo route, one of the highest on its long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. network, British Air is rethinking its South American operation 'South American' operation Surgical oncology A radical operation for 'frozen' pelvis, which consists of en bloc resection of the uterus and rectum. See Frozen pelvis. Cf 'All-American' and 'North American' operations. . Nothing is likely to happen until summer 2009 when the airline takes delivery of four Boeing 777-200ERs, capable of flying Heathrow - Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. non-stop. Aug 13, 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 Airlines LTU Airlines will open a third long-haul base at BerlinTegel in November. It will operate thrice-weekly flights to Bangkok and weekly flights to Punta Cana Punta Cana, named after a local cape, is a region in the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic. Covering about 4,200,000 m2 (approximately 1,100 acres), the region is home to a coastline of sandy white beaches and to a town of the same name. and Varadero. It will expand its long-haul operation from Dusseldorf as well, operating six-times-weekly to 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 JFK and Bangkok, thrice-weekly to Miami and twice-weekly to Fort Myers Fort Myers, city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially . It also will fly thrice-weekly to Bangkok from Munich. All flights will use A330-200s/300s. Aug 16, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa has replicated its first class lounge concept at Munich, but this time within the actual terminal building complex rather than a dedicated structure. Access to the facility, which opened on 14 August, is via level 4 (EU departures) or on level 5 (non-EU departures). Aug 17, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa will introduce individual video screens in its long-haul economy cabins starting in November. It started testing the screens, and both touchscreen and armrest control panels, this week on flights from Frankfurt to Detroit, Houston Intercontinental and Toronto. The menu will be available in nine languages. Aug 16, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa announced an expansion of its transatlantic network from Dusseldorf starting next May. It will base a trio of three-class, 221-seat A340-300s there and operate flights to Chicago O'Hare (six-times-weekly), Newark (daily) and Toronto (six-times-weekly). ORD and EWR EWR Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum (German: European Marketing Area) EWR Early Warning Report EWR Early Warning Radar EWR Extreme Warfare Revenge (game) EWR Electricity at Work Regulations service currently is offered aboard two PrivatAir A319 all-business-class aircraft, which will be placed on other LH routes. YYZ YYZ Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Pearson International Airport (Airport Code) will be a new destination from Dusseldorf. An LH spokesperson said that the company was "absolutely satisfied" with the PrivatAir offering and that it would find a new market for the aircraft. Aug 15, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa said Tuesday it plans to expand its operations at Duesseldorf airport, including adding three new destinations to North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , from May 2008. Aug 14, 2007 Lufthansa, Air Astana Air Astana is an airline based in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is the national carrier of Kazakhstan and operates scheduled domestic and international services. Its main bases are Astana International Airport and Almaty International Airport[1]. Lufthansa and Air Astana signed a cooperation agreement in the Kazakh capital yesterday that will include codesharing and schedule coordination beginning next year and a linking of the carriers' loyalty programs that may begin as early as October. The deal is similar to the one Lufthansa signed with Russia's AiRUnion last month. Aug 15, 2007 Nordic Airways Swedish Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt halted all flights to Iraq operated by domestic carriers after a Nordic Airways MD-80 was fired upon Aug. 8. The aircraft, which departed from Sulaimaniya with 130 onboard, was not hit. Nordic and Viking Air operate to Iraq. Aug 14, 2007 Silverjet Free chauffeur-drive for Silverjet's flexible friends. Passengers travelling with all-business class airline Silverjet can now benefit from a complimentary chauffeur-drive service if they book a fully flexible fare. The Luton-based carrier has introduced the free service for those buying the highest-priced tickets for its London-New York route. Aug 16, 2007 Virgin Atlantic Lufthansa says that it will look at new business class only routes ahead of potential competition to Germany by Virgin Atlantic and British Airways (BA) The German carrier has the chance to expand its dedicated premier class offering as it is to replace the existing business-class only service from Dusseldorf to Newark and Chicago using two PrivatAir Airbus A319s, with three A340-300s from May next year and adding Toronto. Aug 16, 2007 Welcome Air Welcome Air, an Austrian regional, will launch twice-weekly service from Graz-Innsbruck-Kristiansand on Sept. 13 using a Dornier 328. 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