BRIEFCASE AIRLINE BEGINNING FLIGHTS TO BELGIUM.

Byline: - Staff and Wire Services

VG Airlines will launch its inaugural flights from Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, offering nonstop service to Brussels, Belgium.

Focusing on the business-class traveler, the flights run $1,700 for a one-way fare, $3,200 round-trip.

Crews picked from Belgium's former national carrier, Sabena, will fly the Airbus A330-200s, as travelers dine on lobster, filet mignon and salmon, washed down with Belgian beer and followed by fine chocolates.

Economy fares, served with soup and bread, are also available for $600 one way and $750 round-trip.

Bronfmans to call for Messier dump

PARIS - The top shareholder of Vivendi Universal is preparing to call for a meeting of shareholders to oust Chairman Jean-Marie Messier after the French media and utility giant's recent share-price slide, a newspaper report said Friday.

Members of the Bronfman family, who own about 5.05 percent of Vivendi stock, are furious that Messier wasn't removed by the board of directors at its meeting Tuesday, the French business newspaper La Tribune reported. The article cited people familiar with the matter, but did not identify them.

The report said the French members of the board rallied to defend Messier, while five North American members - including Edgar Bronfman Sr., Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Samuel Minzberg, who represents Charles Bronfman on the board - voted against the chairman.

A Vivendi spokesman declined to comment to The Associated Press about the report.

CSC gets 10-year contract with D&B

EL SEGUNDO - Computer Sciences Corp. announced Friday that D&B, formerly known as Dun & Bradstreet, has signed a 10-year information technology outsourcing agreement with CSC valued at about $560 million.

D&B, a provider of business information and technology solutions, will transition to CSC its data center operations, technology help desk and network management functions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

In the United States, D&B will also transfer to CSC desktop and laptop support functions, as well as print and mail facilities.

The El Segundo-based consulting and IT services firm will acquire D&B's data center and print facility in Berkeley Heights, N.J.

It is expected that about 350 D&B IT professionals in the United States and the UK will transition to CSC in August.

Select Comfort near settlement

MINNEAPOLIS - Select Comfort Corp. says it has tentatively agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the air-bed maker misrepresented its sales and financial condition to artificially inflate its stock price.

Select Comfort, in a filing Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said the settlement did not involve any cash payment or other payment obligation by the company, which did not admit any liability or wrongdoing. Terms were not disclosed.

The tentative settlement, negotiated by Select Comfort's insurance company, remains subject to negotiation of a definitive agreement and approval of the court.

Dynegy stock junk in Moody's rating

HOUSTON - Moody's Investors Service downgraded Dynegy Inc. to junk status Friday, noting concern about the company's ability to shore up its finances with more than $8 billion in debt looming.

Dynegy announced a sweeping restructuring plan earlier this week to beef up cash flow, which includes a dividend cut, the spinoff of a unit and the partial sale of a 16,500-mile natural gas pipeline that it acquired from bankrupt Enron Corp. in January.