All Nippon Airways is to launch a twice weekly service between Osaka and London/Heathrow - ANA's first European service from Osaka.

The British government has rejected complaints from the Civil Aviation Authority that British Airways overcharged business class passengers on its flights from London/ Heathrow to Madrid, Milan and Munich.

United Airlines' Shuttle will add new flights to Reno, Nevada, and has plans to expand its existing service to include additional San Francisco flights to five western cities in October.

United Airlines and Gulfstream International Airlines are expanding codeshare arrangements which will improve connections for passengers switching from one carrier to the other at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach.

Ukraine International Airlines has increased the number of flights between London/Gatwick and Kiev to four a week.

Finnair has expanded its services to London by adding a London/Gatwick to Helsinki service under a new codeshare agreement with Swedish carrier Transwede continuing to Stockholm.

Northwest Airlines will increase seat capacity and frequency on its London/Gatwick-Detroit services.

Austrian carrier Lauda Air is to add a third service from Sydney and Melbourne via Singapore to Vienna, with direct connections to 10 European cities, using a B767-300.

Icelandair is to start services to Boston, Massachusetts and Halifax, Nova Scotia, next spring.

America West Airlines begins a daily nonstop service to Puerto Vallarta and direct service four times weekly to Manzanillo next month.

Air Afrique has launched a service linking Dubai with the Côte d'Ivoire capital Abidjan.

Singapore Airlines and British Airways World Cargo have launched a second B747 joint freighter service in response to growing air cargo traffic on the London-Singapore route.

Emirates has launched a new twice weekly service linking Dubai with Johannesburg via the Indian Ocean republic of Comoros.

Source: Airline Business