Company Watch - United Airlines.For more global news, data, analysis and features, please go to: http://www.AirGuideOnline.com/professional.htm Sep 25, 2006 All Nippon Nippon (nĭp`ŏn, nĭpŏn`), name for Japan, derived from Dai Nippon, meaning Great Japan. The expression comes from the Chinese ideograph for the place where the sun comes from, or Land of the Rising Sun. Airways airways Anatomy The 'pipes'–trachea, bronchi, bronchioles–through which air passes to and from the alveoli. See Small airways. , in its plan for 2006-07, will nearly double its flights from Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. to Xiamen Xiamen (shyä`mŭn`) or Amoy (ämoi`), city (1994 est. pop. 458,000), S Fujian prov., China, on Xiamen island, at the mouth of the Jiulong River. and Qingdao Qingdao (chĭng`dou`) or Tsingtao (tsĭng`tou`, chĭng`dou`), city (1994 est. pop. 1,584,100), SE Shandong prov., E China, on the Yellow Sea. to a daily service using 767-300ERs and commence daily flights to Tianjing from Nagoya Centrair. It also is increasing its Osaka-Dalian service to twice-weekly and Osaka-Xiamen from three to four weekly. The new services will start with the winter schedule Nov. 1. Also, ANA intends to launch daily service to Chicago from Tokyo Oct. 29 with 777-300ERs feeding into Star partner United Airlines' network and double its 767-300ER flights to Singapore to twice-daily. Sep 20, 2006 In battle for China, United Airlines wants to link Beijing to its Washington Dulles hub, Northwest Airlines has proposed service between Detroit and Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. and Continental Airlines would like to serve Shanghai from Newark. All are making their cases to DOT, which likely will choose a carrier by year end. Earlier in the week, UA launched a campaign titled "Capital-to-Capital Coalition" with a team of former US trade officials on its side. "We are unanimous in our belief that it is very much in our nation's public interest to do everything possible to strengthen the relationship between the US and China," wrote the group of eight former US trade representatives, who collectively worked for Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, both Bushes and Clinton. Sep 21, 2006 |
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