Iranian private airline Mahan Air has launched passenger and freight flights between Tehran and Kabul. Initially, two services per week are being operated. Belgian long-haul start-up VG Airlines will begin operations from Brussels to New York Kennedy on 23 May using Airbus A330s. Boston services will start on 30 May with Los Angeles following next month. Virgin Express will feed the airline's services at Brussels. Having abandoned plans to merge with Virgin Express, SN Brussels Airlines will terminate its commercial relationship with the low-cost carrier in March next year. Meanwhile, SN is to codeshare with Finnair on both carriers' flights between Brussels and Helsinki from early June. SN is also carrying Air Littoral codes on flights to Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseilles, Strasbourg and Toulouse. Iberia and TAP Air Portugal have launched codeshares on each other's flights between certain domestic and European destinations. Las Vegas-based National Airlines will launch a three-times-daily service from Las Vegas to Seattle and add a fourth daily flight to Dallas/Fort Worth on 23 May. In August National will also restart flights from its Las Vegas hub to Washington National Airport and introduce a daily service to Washington Dulles. It will start a four-times-daily service from Las Vegas to Reno Tahoe International Airport on 3 October. American Trans Air's affiliate Chicago Express Airlines will start a four-times- daily service between Chicago Midway Airport and Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky on 28 August. It will also start four daily flights between Chicago and the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on 15 August. Air Canada has started a daily service between Vancouver and Anchorage. From its 2002 winter schedule, BMI British Midland's East Midlands-based low fare arm Bmibaby will add services to Copenhagen, Lyon and Milan Bergamo. Flights to Murcia and Ibiza will be dropped.
Source: Flight International
