Alaska Airlines has become the first US carrier to offer ticket booking on the Internet.
Northwest Airlines is extending its daily Boston-Amsterdam service to Bombay (four times weekly) and Delhi (three times).
United Airlines is launching daily services to Vancouver from both Denver and Los Angeles in March.
America West is starting daily Phoenix services to both Phila- delphia and Boston in May.
Cayman Airways will launch thrice weekly services between Orlando and Grand Cayman from mid-April.
Ansett Australia launches twice weekly Sydney-Jakarta services in February.
Cathay Pacific has decided to keep its flight training school in Hong Kong, cancelling previous plans to move the centre to Australia.
Sabena will codeshare on TAP Air Portugal's twice weekly Lisbon-Brussels-Macau service which starts in April using an A340. Sabena will extend its codeshare with Delta Air Lines with a second daily Brussels-New York/JFK service operated by the US carrier. The Belgian flag was set to launch a weekly service to Nouakchott in Mauritania using an A310. It has also started a twice daily service from Brussels to Humberside operated by Eurodirect.
KLM started twice weekly MD-11 Amsterdam-Lusaka services in January and will add Surabaya as a stopover on its twice-weekly Denpasar service from the end of April. The Dutch flag will also start eight weekly services to Bucharest in April, rising to ten weekly in July, using a B737-300.
Virgin Atlantic will start three weekly A340 services from London/Heathrow to Johannesburg in mid-July.
SAS is to start daily DC-9 services to Bologna from Copenhagen and twice daily F50 services to Newcastle. SAS is also leasing a B747-200F from Atlas Air for US and Asian cargo operations.
British Airways will start non-stop London/Gatwick-Marakech services, operated by GB Airways, when the franchisee moves its North African services from Heathrow in April. Another franchisee, CityFlyer Express, will start three daily BA Express services from Gatwick to Cologne/Bonn in March.
Centennial has started scheduled services with a once weekly Manchester-Palma service, rising to two weekly frequencies in March.
UK startup EasyJet has launched its third UK domestic route with a six times a week service from Luton-Aberdeen.
German independent Interot Airways has changed its name to Augsburg Airways.
Source: Airline Business
