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Virgin Blue’s international airline V Australia and Delta Air Lines have negotiated and signed an Australia-U.S. interline agreement offering seamless travel on the networks of each carrier and across the trans-Pacific route. V Australia commenced flying between Los Angeles and Sydney on 27 February, 2009. The airline will commence direct flights from Los Angeles to

Mesa Air Group announced the termination of its Code Share Agreement with Hawaii based Mokulele Airlines. Mesa elected to accelerate its previously announced termination date, as permitted under the terms of the Code Share Agreement, following Mokulele’s announcement that it had replaced its Chief Executive Officer.

SuperJet International, the regional jet marketing, customization, and support company for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft, has selected Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH (LTL) as the exclusive global logistic provider to manage the Sukhoi Superjet 100 spares distribution centres worldwide. The new partnership will take advantage of Lufthansa Technik Logistik

V Australia, Sir Richard Branson

Mike Press and Mason Holland announced their formation of Eclipse Jet LLC (Eclipse Jet) with partners Roel Pieper, Raul Segredo and John Cracken to acquire and operate the assets of Eclipse Aviation Corporation (Eclipse) for the benefit of existing and future customers. Eclipse Jet will focus on building a healthy, viable platform for the Eclipse

On March 10, 2009, after presidential review, the United States Department of Transportation issued its Final Order to Baltia Air Lines. The Final Order authorizes Baltia to engage in foreign non-stop air transportation of persons, property and mail from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York to Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia. Based at

In face of declining passenger numbers, Lufthansa is considering the introduction of short time in the passenger business. The envisaged measure would affect around 1,000 ground staff, mostly employed on customer services and support, at several stations in Germany. The details prior to submitting an application are to be worked out with employee representatives in

Ryanair confirmed that it had successfully concluded a round of intensive negotiations at its 31 pilot bases across Europe, under which all of Ryanair

Ryanair announced a further series of route, flight and frequency cuts at Dublin Airport from July, as the impact of the EUR 10 tourist tax and other Government price hikes cause numbers at Dublin to decline