Thomas Cook’s charter airline Condor has joined “early talks” with TUI Travel’s TUIfly Germany and Lufthansa’s Germanwings unit over a possible three-way merger, the companies said on Thursday.
Lufthansa, Europe’s second-largest airline, plans to pay EUR65 million euros ($96.1 million) for a 45 percent stake in fledgling carrier Brussels Airlines with the option to buy all of the company in two years.
European Union anti-trust authorities said on Friday they had launched an investigation into a planned tie-up between British Airways, American Airlines and Spanish carrier Iberia.
In the first half of this year the number of overseas tourists arriving in Uruguay increased 13.7 percent compared to the same period in 2007, according to Benjamin Liberoff, chief advisor of the country’s Ministry of Tourism.
Delta and Northwest received government approval to expand their codeshare program on transpacific flights, beginning Aug. 30, according to the carriers.
Later this month, all first and business class customers flying United’s p.s. service will relax with the Westin Heavenly Bed products and signature amenities. The partnership between Westin Hotels & Resorts and United Airlines marks the first time that hotel-branded bedding and amenities have taken to the sky on a U.S. airline.