Virgin Express is launching daily services from Berlin to Rome Fiumicino and Brussels in November. Delta Air Lines will discontinue services to St Croix in the US Virgin Islands on 1 December to make more seats available to St Thomas passengers. Channel Islands-based Aurigny Air Services has applied to begin services from Jersey to London Stansted, and Southampton, following KLM uk's withdrawal. US Airways Express will operate three daily round-trips with regional jets between Atlanta and New York LaGuardia beginning on 5 December, using the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. EVA Airways has introduced MD-11 freighter services three times a week from Atlanta to Taipei, routing via Chicago on the outbound services. Jersey European Airways will introduce services four times daily from London City to Edinburgh at the end of October. Air France and Tunisair have agreed to co-ordinate their route networks and timetables and increase the number of codeshare routes as part of the move towards "creating a true global alliance" between the two. The USA and Argentina have signed a liberalised bilateral aviation agreement that will lead to open skies between the two nations by 2003. Both sides agreed to add seven weekly flights for each country, beginning on 1 September next year, and a further seven on 1 June, 2001 and 1 June the following year. Both sides are currently limited to 42 weekly flights. British Airways' low-cost subsidiary Go is adding new routes from London Stansted to Prague and Barcelona in September. Transavia is transferring the operation of its Amsterdam Schiphol to London Gatwick service, to part owner KLM , from mid- November. Sudan Airways has resumed its Khartoum-Addis Ababa service after a four-year hiatus. Lufthansa has been cleared by the Namibian and Zimbabwean governments to operate scheduled services between Windhoek and Harare.
Source: Flight International
