Airlines & Routes

Qantas will begin operating seasonal services between Australia and Vancouver from 14 June to 13 August 2006.

Cathay Pacific Airways: Hong Kong – Delhi; Hong Kong – Mumbai

Virgin Atlantic: Manchester : Barbados

Air France-KLM reported a load factor of 81.7% for October. Traffic increased by 8.9% and capacity by 6.0%. Air France-KLM carried over 6 million passengers (up 5.3%).

Midwest Airlines available seat miles increased in October 2005 to 388,177 (000s) from 284,986 (000s) in October 2004. Load factor increased to 68.1% compared to 65.0% in October 2004.

Lufthansa fell short of the record levels in the same month in the previous year. During the month, 4.6 million (- 2.1%) passengers flew with Lufthansa. Only part (+0.6 %) of the marginal increase (+1.6 per cent) in capacity was sold in the market, so that the passenger load factor fell by 0.8 percentage points

Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation, operating as US Airways Express and United Express, reports traffic for October 2005. The revenue passenger miles were down by 30% to 190.3 million RPMs. The load factor was 72.9% (2004= 75.1%).

air arabia the low-fares airline in the Middle East and North Africa region, announced the start of operations to Amman from 11th November 2005.

Air Berlin is to step up its competition in the UK marketplace by creating its third European hub at London Stansted, adding domestic UK routes to its schedule and expanding the number of international flights. First routes from Stansted will be Glasgow and Manchester.

American Airlines reported an October load factor of 77.1% (74.9% in 2004). Traffic grew by 1.5% year over year, on a 1.5% reduction in capacity. The airline reported 10,873 million RPM (10,717 in 2004). International traffic increased by 4.4% relative to last year, on a capacity increase of 4.7%. Domestic traffic was essentially flat compared