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Air France KLM maintains African commitment

Friday March 12, 2010

Air France KLM intends to maintain its strong position in Africa and a strategy of continuous growth despite the economic downturn and increased competition, Senior VP-Africa & Middle East Etienne Rachou told ATWOnline. [more]

Qatar Airways to serve Argentina, Brazil

Friday March 12, 2010

Qatar Airways will launch its first flights to South America when it begins flying to Sao Paulo Guarulhos and Buenos Aires from Doha later this year. Frequency and dates for the 777 services were not announced. QR already has announced plans to start serving Copenhagen (March 30), Ankara (April 5), Tokyo Narita (April 26) and Barcelona (June 7). Its summer schedule from March 28 will feature capacity increases to 15 additional destinations, including third daily flights to both Colombo and Kathmandu.

Friday March 12, 2010

European Commission said "considerable progress has been made in recent months" on a second-stage open skies agreement with the US and that the parties have reached "tentative agreement on a wide range of items." It said it was "confident" that agreement on "a number of important issues" still outstanding can be reached this year. If no second-stage accord is finalized by December, both the EU and US have the right to suspend certain portions of the initial deal that entered effect in March 2008. "However, given the progress already made in the negotiations, Europe considers an agreement in 2010 to be the most likely outcome," the EC said. The sides will convene for an eighth round of negotiations on March 22 in Brussels.

Friday March 12, 2010

Alaska Airlines will launch service from San Jose, Calif., to Kahului (thrice-weekly) and Kona (four-times-weekly) on March 12.

Frontier Airlines will operate Kansas City-Cancun service twice-weekly April 19-May 2 and weekly May 3-Aug. 28.

Jet Airways Konnect will launch daily Delhi-Dehradun flights on March 28 aboard an ATR 72-500.

Air Europa will launch thrice-weekly London Gatwick-Madrid-Miami service on March 19.

Ryanair will launch thrice-weekly London Stansted-Ciudad Real service on May 24.

Oneworld trio aims to appease European regulators with London slot leases

Thursday March 11, 2010

Oneworld partners British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia offered to lease at least four daily slot pairs at London Heathrow or Gatwick to competing carriers for service to three US cities in order to address regulatory concerns about their proposed transatlantic joint venture. [more]

LaHood: White House has 'an interest' in funding NextGen aircraft equipage

Wednesday March 10, 2010

US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaking yesterday at the FAA Aviation Forecast Conference in Washington, said President Barack Obama's administration will "soon" make a decision on whether to allocate federal funds to equip commercial aircraft with NextGen ATC technology such as ADS-B. [more]

Wednesday March 10, 2010

Emirates plans to hire 2,000 flight attendants this year, according to a statement cited by press reports from Dubai. It has added some 660 cabin staff and more than 60 pilots in the past 12 months, during which it increased its fleet by 14 aircraft to 145. It will launch service to its 106th destination, Dakar, on Sept. 1 when it begins five-times-weekly flights from Dubai on an A340-300.

Wednesday March 10, 2010

TAP Portugal will commence thrice-weekly Lisbon-Algiers service on June 1.

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