-Austrian Airlines has launched a weekly service to Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan.
-US Airways' new low fare division MetroJet has launched a new service between Baltimore and Orlando.
-Qantas has been cleared by the Australian authorities to move from five Boeing 767 flights to seven weekly Boeing 747 flights to the Philippines.
-Northwest Airlines and KLM exel have signed a code-sharing agreement to link Northwest flights to Maastricht, Groningen and Enschede.
-Debonair will start operating a daily London Gatwick-Barcelona service on 25 October.
-Air Canada will begin a twice-daily service to Washington Dulles from Dorval, Montreal on 5 October, complementing its three daily flights to Washington National.
-The US Department of Transportation's (DoT) Aviation Enforcement Office has fined Delta Air Lines code-share partner Swissair $50,000 for operating prohibited flights over Afghanistan. In February 1995 the DoT extended a ban introduced in 1994 because of "safety and security concerns", to code-sharing partners.
-British Airways low-cost subsidiary, London Stansted-based Go, is to serve Edinburgh, Scotland, and Bologna, Italy, from 8 September.
-US Airways is deferring starting its Charlotte-London Gatwick route until it obtains "commercially viable" slots.
-Delta Air Lines and Korean Air have signed an alliance deal to build on code-sharing started in 1995.
-Air France and Korean Air are to introduce a code-sharing and seat-block agreement on most of their Paris-Seoul services from 1 September.
-UPS has introduced a second Boeing 767-300ER freighter to replace McDonnell Douglas DC-8s operated from its European hub at Cologne/Bonn.
-Cargolux is to operate into Glasgow Prestwick, using a Boeing 747 freighter twice a week from Taiwan via Komatsu, Japan.
-British Airways has restarted non-stop flights to Tehran from London Heathrow.
Source: Flight International
