Company Watch - Lufthansa.Jun 18, 2007 Lufthansa flew 10.37 billion RPKs in May, up 6.2% on the year-ago month. Capacity climbed 4.4% to 13.64 billion ASKs and load factor rose 1.3 points to 76.1%. Jun 13, 2007 Lufthansa and EgyptAir codesharing will start with the introduction of the winter schedule and will be introduced on Frankfurt-Cairo, FRA-Alexandria and Munich-CAI flights. Cooperation on flights to "tourism centers" in Egypt and North Africa, as well as Lufthansa services throughout Europe and 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. , is planned. Lufthansa is the largest European carrier in Egypt and currently operates 14 weekly FRA-CAI services and thrice-weekly FRA-Alexandria flights. EgyptAir operates daily flights from CAI (1) (Computer-Assisted Instruction) Same as CBT. (2) See CA. CAI - Computer-Aided Instruction to FRA Fra: see Angelico, Fra; Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, Fra; Fra Filippo Lippi under Lippi. and MUC MUC Mount Union College (Ohio) MUC Multi User Chat MUC Message Understanding Conference MUC Montreal Urban Community MUC Malaspina University College (Canada) and twice-weekly services to Berlin Schoenefeld and Dusseldorf. Jun 15, 2007 Lufthansa and EgyptAir announced a codeshare agreement Code sharing is a business term which was first originated in the airline industry in 1990 when the Australian airline, Qantas Airways and the US's American Airlines combined services between an array of US domestic cities and Australian cities. yesterday that they said will be part of a close cooperation between the two and that will boost rumors that the African carrier is being courted by Star Alliance. A source close to the tie-up confirmed that there have been discussions about EgyptAir's potential membership. Jun 15, 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 said it was discussing the future of its 20 percent stake in British carrier bmi with Germany's Lufthansa. Around 12 percent of take-off and landing slots Landing slots or Airport slots are rights allocated to an airline by an airport or government agency granting an airline the right to schedule a landing or departure at a specific time. at Britain's crowded Heathrow Airport are held by bmi, which operates around 1,700 flights per week. SAS on Wednesday outlined plans for its future including selling off its holdings in bmi, Air Greenland Air Greenland is the regional airline of Greenland, based in Nuuk. It operates largely domestic services, with international services to Copenhagen and Baltimore . It offers concessional air services to all communities in Greenland and operates charter, taxi and special flights, and its Spanair unit to help it boost profitability. SAS said it was not talking to any other companies about the bmi stake. Lufthansa, which owns 30 percent of bmi minus one share, declined to comment, saying it continued to observe the market. Sir Michael Bishop, chairman and founder of bmi, owns 50 percent of the airline plus one share. Jun 14, 2007 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 service that keeps travelers informed on 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. |
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