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Airline News - Latin America / Caribbean.


Jun 25, 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.
, Lufthansa

British Airways, Lufthansa operate via Sao Paulo. The new operation will be five times per week, while alternative routings from Europe include Iberia via Madrid and a daily service by Air France Air France
 in full Compagnie Internationale Air France

French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde
 from Paris Charles de Gaulle. With a population of 12m, Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires) is the metropolitan area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which consists of the Federal Capital and the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires:
 is the largest metropolitan region in Argentina, and the second-largest in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  as a whole, after Sao Paulo. Nearly all of Germany's blue-chip, DAX-listed companies have a branch within the catchment area catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage  of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. , Lufthansa points out. Buenos Aires is a most vibrant of cities. Lufthansa also operates daily services from both Frankfurt and Munich to Sao Paulo Likewise, passengers from Chile can fly to any of the airlines' three hubs in Europe. Star Alliance, to which both partners are affiliated, does not currently have a partner in South America. Jun 21, 2007

Lufthansa

Lufthansa is returning to Frankfurt - Buenos Aires from Sunday October 28 after pulling off the route in February 2005. It will become the longest non-stop flight A non-stop flight in the aviation industry refers to any flight which does not involve any intermediate stops. Many laymen mistakenly assume that a "direct flight" is similar to a "non-stop flight".  on the Lufthansa network with a scheduled time In rallying, the Scheduled Time of any crew is the time, calculated at the beginning of the event, that they should arrive at any given control. It is different from Due Time in that Due Time is dynamic, ie it can change throughout the event as competitors drop time; whereas  of around 13.5 hours. The route will be flown by a Boeing 747-400 in a three-class configuration. Now that Lufthansa and Swiss have harmonised their timetables, various combinations of points in both Europe and South America are available. Swiss flies daily from Zurich to Sao Paulo and from there on to Santiago (Chile). Jun 21, 2007

Swiss International

Swiss International is providing additional options for business and leisure travelers to other intercontinental destinations, too, in its current summer schedules. The airline's customers will soon be enjoying greater flexibility in planning their travel to Los Angeles, to Johannesburg and to Santiago de Chile (via Sao Paulo) thanks to the provision of additional flights. All three destinations will enjoy daily (instead of the present six-times-weekly) service from mid-July. Jun 22, 2007

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