American Airlines and Vietnam Airlines plan to begin codesharing next year. Initially, the US carrier will codeshare on Vietnam Airlines' flights from Paris and Toyko to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, while the Vietnamese airline will codeshare on American's US-Paris and US-Toyko flights. Swissair is launching services from Geneva and Zurich to Mauritius under a code share agreement with Air Mauritius. China Southern Airlines conducted a transpolar demonstration flight on 15 July, flying a Boeing 777 from New York Kennedy to Beijing. Codeshare partner Delta Air Lines conducted a similar demonstration flight earlier this year, but is unable to launch the service because it lacks US-China route authority. Continental Airlines is to resume its second daily Boeing 777 New York-Tel Aviv flights from May 2002, a year and a half after reducing services due to the Palestinian revolt. South African Airways will resume services to Kinshasa this winter, following a two-year suspension of the route due to hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Delta Air Lines will codeshare on South African Airways' daily Boeing 737-800 Johannesburg-Nairobi, Kenya, service from 1 September. Garuda Indonesia has reintroduced three weekly flights from Fukuoka, Japan, to Denpasar, Bali, using Airbus A300s. Garuda has recently added new routes from the Indonesian capital Jakarta to Seoul, Medan-Singapore and Surabaya-Singapore. Cathay Pacific is deferring the launch of non-stop transpolar flights from Hong Kong to New York until next year following its industrial dispute with its pilots and deteriorating economic conditions. Delta Express will launch four daily flights between New York Kennedy and West Palm Beach, Florida in November. Alaska Airlines plans to begin a daily Los Angeles-Cancun Boeing 737-700 service on 20 October, subject to approval by the Mexican Government.
Source: Flight International
