BMI British Midland has started daily services between Leeds Bradford and Cork in Ireland. Singapore Airlines will suspend services to Kathmandu in Nepal this month due to poor demand. Alaska Airlines has begun daily services between Orange County, California, and Vancouver, using a Boeing 737-700. Austrian Airlines has resumed three times weekly flights between Vienna and Montreal and Toronto. JAT Yugoslav Airlines will begin Belgrade-Beirut-Dubai flights this month. Initially, three weekly flights will operate,increasing to four a week from mid-June. American Trans Air is to charter four Boeing 737-800s to Milwaukee-based Funjet Vacations, a subsidiary of Mark Travel, under an 18-month agreement running to December 2003. The aircraft will operate in support of the US cruise ship market. Luxair started a weekly service between Luxembourg and the Bulgarian resort city Varna on the Black Sea on 5 May, using a 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145. Tarom has added a Luxembourg stop to its twice-weekly services between Bucharest and New York Kennedy. Ukraine International Airlines has launched direct weekly services between Kiev and Zurich. On 15 June, American Airlines will begin weekend Boeing 757 services from New York Kennedy to Grand Cayman and Boeing 737 services from Boston twice weekly to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and on Saturdays to Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. Korean Air has increased its Chinese destinations from eight to 12, with the introduction of services from Incheon to Jinan and Xiamen, and from Daegu to Yantai and Gwangju to Shanghai. BWIA West Indies Airways has started a three-times weekly service between its Port of Spain hub and Paramaribo in Surinam. Xiamen Airlines has started twice-weekly services from Fuzhou to Kuala Lumpur. GB Airways will add a ninth Spanish destination on 3 November, launching a twice-weekly flight from London Gatwick to Almeria.
Source: Flight International
