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Alitalia

Alitalia sought bankruptcy protection on Friday after nearly two years of looking for a buyer, paving the way for its rescue by a group of Italian investors in a coup for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The long-awaited move by the national airline after 61 years of flying popes and movie stars during Italy's "Dolce Vita" glory days sets it up for a less glamorous rebirth as a smaller airline focused on domestic and European routes. Aug 29, 2008

Bmi

Bmi will double its London Heathrow-Moscow Domodedovo service to twice-daily on Oct. 26. The airline has served the Russian city daily since October 2006, but this additional service will firmly position the carrier as a key player on the lucrative route, previously dominated by British Airways and Russian airline Aeroflot. bmi operates two cabins on its Airbus A320 with 20 business class seats and 108 in economy. Business class passengers will benefit from a 127 cm seat pitch (41 cm more than other carriers on the route according to Bmi), 49cm seat width and 31cm / 35 degree seat recline. For more information on Bmi’s new service visit www.flybmi.com Sep 5, 2008

British Airways

British Airways has now confirmed that it will begin Heathrow-Hyderabad flights on December 6 following Kingfisher Airlines introducing Heathrow-Bangalore last week, and Mumbai from the start of the winter season 26 October. he UK-India is certainly heating up. British Airways says the Indian market is now its second largest long haul after the United States. Besides Hyderabad the airline flies to Bangalore, Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay). It competes on various routes with a number of carriers including Air India, Jet Airways and Virgin Atlantic, besides the new Kingfisher operation. bmi introduced a short lived Mumbai route in 2006, and the airlines of the Gulf offer non-direct competition but only on a price basis. British Airways will operate Boeing 777 equipment on the route five times per week, with a four-class layout. Flight time is around nine hours. For more information visit www.ba.com Sep 6, 2008

Emerald Airways

UK regulators have tightened their processes for detecting safety-related problems with operators, after an overrun incident involving a freight carrier showed that close scrutiny had failed to reveal the full extent of operational deficiencies. The Civil Aviation Authority suspended Emerald Airways' air operator's certificate in May 2006, but at the time did not disclose the full reason for the decision. But an Air Accidents Investigation Branch inquiry, published this week, details a British Aerospace 748 overrun at Guernsey, two months earlier, which highlighted serious inadequacies at the carrier. Aug 28, 2008

Finnair

Finnair will launch thrice-weekly Helsinki-Yekaterinburg on Sept. 2 aboard an A319. Ural Airlines will codeshare. Aug 26, 2008

KLM

KLM will add four weekly frequencies to its daily Amsterdam-Hong Kong 747-400 Combi service from March 29. Aug 28, 2008

Spanair

Spanish investigators have disclosed that the Spanair Boeing MD-82 which crashed on departure from Madrid Barajas last week descended and struck the ground tail-first while struggling to climb away. The aircraft travelled for 1.2km, hitting terrain three times before coming to rest. Spain's Comision de Investigacion de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviacion Civil (CIAIAC) revealed the information in the first update on the inquiry's progress since the August 20 accident which killed 154 of the 172 passengers on board the jet. Aug 28, 2008

Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic is cutting flights on routes with light load factors including Washington Dulles, Mumbai, New York JFK and the Caribbean. Other flight cancellations, taking place this month, will cover services out of Gatwick to Barbados, St Lucia and Antigua. Next January there are a number of cancellations between Gatwick, Manchester and Orlando. For more information go to www.virgin-atlantic.com Sep 2, 2008

XL Airways

XL Airways will suspend flights from London Gatwick to the Caribbean (it serves Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Barbados and Grenada) on Nov. 3, citing fuel costs, the economic downturn and the routes' falling popularity as reasons for the decision. XL Leisure Group's UK scheduled and charter airline said it will focus instead on more profitable long-haul services to Florida and its short- and medium-haul network. XL currently uses 767-300s on its Caribbean routes, which were due to be replaced in autumn with two new A330s. It also is cutting its daily LGW-Knock on Sept. 2. Sep 1, 2008

 

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