Air France to Start Non-Stop Service From Seattle to Paris
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By Carol Pucci, Seattle Times  Feb. 20--Air France will start daily non-stop service from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Paris this summer with a new flight into Charles de Gaulle Airport starting June 11.
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Virgin Atlantic Airways today launched daily non-stop scheduled services between Hong Kong and Sydney using an Airbus 340-600. Sir Richard Branson landed at Sydney aboard the inaugural flight from London, operated
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An American airline has confirmed it is to begin a regular direct service from Belfast to New York.
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Air France becomes the latest major airline to raise ticket prices in response to higher fuel costs.
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PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's first real test after five months in office comes at rush hour today, with a strike disrupting flights and trains around Europe, and stripping Paris of public transport - all because of anger over plans to trim some retirement packages.
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Air France launched a commercial trial of an onboard cell phone service, but in a limited fashion that avoids a controversial aspect.Travelers on certain Air France planes on European routes can send and receive short messages and, provided their phones support Internet access, send and receive e-mails.Initially, travelers won&#39;t be able to make or receive voice calls. That limitation skirts an important issue: whether cell phone talkers will annoy nearby passengers.However, in about three months, Air France does plan to allow voice calls, but said it will regulate the service &quot;to maintain passengers&#39; comfort and well-being.&quot; It did not explain how it might do that.Onboard calls and messages are routed through a small cellular base station inside the plane. From there, messages are transmitted over satellite to the ground and then on to the telephone network. The service is supplied by OnAir, a company part owned by airplane maker Airbus.To use their phones, passengers must dial as if they&#39;re making an international call. Air France did not say how much each message would cost for users but said the price is comparable to traditional mobile phone use.The planes come equipped with a new illuminated sign that instructs passengers when to keep their phones off. Travelers can send and receive messages only when the plane rises above 10,000 feet.Tips for using the service will be explained on a leaflet in seat pockets, Air France said. In addition, users will be able to fill out a survey about their experiences using it. After six months, Air France will consider whether to launch the service on all of its flights.Airlines and regulators worldwide have been considering onboard cell phone use for years. Some regulators, including the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, have banned mobile phone use on airplanes. The European Union, however, has approved the idea, and various national regulators there have begun to allow it. Airlines in other regions, like the Australian operator Qantas, are also conducting more limited tests of the service.JetBlue, Yahoo, and Research In Motion recently launched a service on one airplane in the U.S. that allows users to send and receive e-mail from BlackBerry phones, Wi-Fi smartphones, and laptops. However, the service uses an onboard Wi-Fi network instead of cellular phone technology.
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Low-cost carrier AirTran Airways could start a shuttle service from Boston to New York and Washington if one of the troubled airlines offering the hourly service folds, a top executive said yesterday.
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More travel chaos is expected at France's main airports as a strike by Air France workers continues.
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Paris: Determined to get a decent night's sleep, French President Jacques Chirac ordered his airbus pilot to perform a 1,250-mile time-killing tour of France before heading to Russia to see Vladimir Putin last ...
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The French government today said was to sell a 17.7% stake in Air France-KLM, the worldâs largest airline, in a move that would help the state reduce its debt and scale back its influence on the Franco-Dutch carrier.
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PARIS - The route for the 2005 Tour de France was announced by organisers at the Palais de Congres in Paris Thursday and will start with a 19 kilometre time trial on the French island of Noirmoutier and will also have two stages in Germany.
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ABIDJAN, Cote D&#39;Ivoire (Ivory Coast) -- France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military
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Some Seattle-area Microsoft employees will soon get a break from traffic after a new company bus service starts up and some new buildings downtown open.
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The world's biggest-ever passenger plane has been unveiled in France at a ceremony attended by the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Spain and 5,000 VIP guests.
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Eurostar is set to make its inaugural journey from Paris to London via a new 186mph high-speed line.
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The French government has announced its selling 17.7 percent of Air France-KLM Group, the manager of the sale said. France is going to sell â¬693 million of the Europe&#39;s biggest airline, or $922 million of
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.