-Alitalia Cargo and KLM Cargo have started a joint freighter service. Using two KLM Boeing 747-300s and three Alitalia 747-200s, the airlines have a multihub arrangement based on Amsterdam Schiphol, Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino. The agreement enables Alitalia Cargo to add Amsterdam, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore and Tel Aviv to its destinations, while KLM gains Buenos Aires, Madras, Milan and Sao Paulo.
-Ethiopian Airlines has begun a twice-weekly Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-New York Newark service.
-The British Airways/Qantas partnership is offering its passengers flexible codesharing round the world tickets, with optional connections via Frankfurt or Paris with London Gatwick, Birmingham or Manchester. Australian connection points include Brisbane for flights to Auckland and Sydney for Christchurch or Wellington.
-Antwerp-based Dutch commuter airline VLM and Luxair of Luxembourg are to codeshare on flights between Luxembourg and London City from 16 November. There will be three daily return flights on weekdays and single daily flights at the weekends, using VLM Fokker 50s. VLM operates international regional codeshare flights for KLM uk, Lufthansa and Sabena.
-UK carriers AB Airlines, Debonair and Futura will codeshare on services from London Gatwick to Barcelona and Palma during the low season.
-Bournemouth, UK-based regional carrier Euroscot Express has launched its first international service, with a daily Bournemouth-Amsterdam schedule.
-South African Airways has changed its intercontinental and African route network and cut its international hubs, ahead of privatisation. From 1 December, Copenhagen disappears from its network, but the carrier will codeshare with Lufthansa and SAS via Frankfurt and London to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. The service from Cape Town to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires will operate from Johannesburg.
Source: Flight International
