From 16th August to 5th September 2004, SIA will screen highlights of the Games on all flights exceeding three hours. With new footage weekly, the coverage will extend over the full duration of the Games, from the opening ceremony on 13th August until the closing ceremony on 29th August.

The Olympics Highlights will be aired on Channel 21 of SIA’s award-winning KrisWorld inflight entertainment system.

Returning to Athens, the birthplace of the Modern Olympics, for the first time since 1896 it is anticipated that over 10,000 athletes from 202 countries will compete in 37 sports and sports disciplines in this year’s Games.

KrisWorld now offers over 400 entertainment options, including video and audio programming, interactive games and news. Customers can choose from a selection of 60 movies, 90 TV programmes, over 200 music CD albums and audio books and 33 Nintendo games, available on all SIA aircraft installed with the Matsushita 3000 system.

"India is an important market with great growth potential. Lufthansa is today already the European airline with the largest offer of services to India for its customers" explained Wolfgang Mayrhuber. "We are banking on the dynamism of this market and can see considerable potential through the cooperation", Mayrhuber added. With Air India, Lufthansa has found a partner which is optimally placed in its home market. Together the strategically outstanding position will be exploited in order to continue to be the leading European airline to and from India.

V. Thulasidas announced that Air India has been accorded the IOSA Audit Certificate by IATA recently and is amongst the first airlines conforming to the required quality standards. He also said that India-Germany/ Europe and India-USA were very important markets for Air India which it plans to serve over Frankfurt in alliance with Lufthansa. Air India will soon link Bangalore & Hyderabad directly to Frankfurt and enhance Delhi-Frankfurt operations to a daily going beyond to US West Coast.

In addition to the code-sharing between Germany and India, the code of Air India will also be bookable on Lufthansa connecting flights from Frankfurt to Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf to Amsterdam, Geneva, Zurich and Lyon as well as to Washington, Denver, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The cooperation agreement signed today results from a memorandum of understanding which the two carriers signed on 26th August 2003. In it, cooperation in the area of sales and marketing is also foreseen as well as cooperation in the medium term in other areas, for example, in the area of IT.

Various working groups are currently working on the design and further development of the various areas of cooperation.

Lufthansa currently flies from Frankfurt to Delhi (once daily), Mumbai (once daily), Chennai (once daily) and Bangalore (five times a week) as well as from Munich to Delhi (three times a week.) As a result of the new cooperation, there will now be a further six weekly flights between Frankfurt and Mumbai as well as three weekly flights between Frankfurt and Delhi which are operated by Air India and can now be booked with a Lufthansa code.

Today's Air India was founded in 1932 under the name Tata Airlines and renamed Air India Ltd. in 1946. Air India currently serves up to 33 destinations from Mumbai and Delhi, including, among others, Frankfurt, Chicago and New York. The fleet of Air India consists of 33 wide bodied aircraft and it has plans to add 6 more in the ensuing winter schedule.

The Lufthansa - Air-India pact paves the way for joint development of air services on India-Europe-USA route.

The Moscow - Brussels route, inaugurated in March this year and operated with the modern Airbus A 319, has grown in popularity. The load factor has increased month on month as more and more business and leisure travellers discover the full service offer of SN Brussels Airlines.

As a result, SN’s Network Department has decided to increase the direct flights between the Russian capital and Brussels from five to six weekly rotations. Thanks to this extra rotation an additional capacity of 264 seats per week is offered between Moscow and the capital of Europe.

The new flight, operated on day 2 (Tuesday) will leave Brussels at 07h05 local time and arrive at 12h25 local time at Moscow’s modern Domodedovo airport. The flight to Brussels leaves Domodedovo at 13h15 local time and arrives in Brussels at 14h45 local.

Thanks to this frequency increase we offer our business and leisure travellers more and better travel solutions”, says Executive Vice President Network Eric Follet. “More and more air travellers have become time sensitive and appreciate flexibility. This is exactly what we offer on the Moscow - Brussels services. Thanks to a quick and smooth transfer, clients travelling with SN Brussels Airlines from Moscow to Brussels also have access to dozens of onward connecting flights to destinations in France, Spain, Italy and the UK.”

And SN has more good news for the Russian travel industry. The popular, seasonal flights between St Petersburg and Brussels will continue until November 6 (end of the Autumn holidays) and will restart after the winter suspension already on March 26, 2026 (beginning of the Easter Holiday period).

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SWISS adds attractive new destinations
Alicante and Salzburg are the latest cities to join the SWISS route network. In addition, SWISS will soon operate flights between Geneva and London-City again. An additional midday flight will connect Venice more effectively to the full route network. And as of the next winter timetable period SWISS passengers will have five daily flights to Prague to choose from.

SWISS is expanding its product in Spain with flights to the popular holiday region of Costa Blanca. As of September 4 SWISS will operate flights on Saturday and Sunday between Zurich and Alicante with an Avro RJ100.

As of September 20 SWISS and Styrian Spirit will add a third attractive destination in Austria. Flights between Salzburg and Zurich will operate three times daily during the week and once daily on weekends. These codeshare flights will be performed by Styrian Spirit, which already serves Graz and Krakow in partnership with SWISS.

Re-opening of Geneva-London-City route
As of October 31, SWISS will reintroduce flights between Geneva and London City Airport, with four weekday and two weekend flights with Avro RJ85/RJ100 aircraft. London City Airport is conveniently located for quick access to all parts of London.

More frequencies to Venice and Prague
SWISS partner Denim Air will increase service between Zurich and Venice as of August 30 with a midday flight that brings service on this route to thrice daily. Partners SWISS and Denim Air have been serving Venice and Florence from Zurich since June 1.

From the end of October SWISS and Czech Airlines will expand their joint product between Zurich and Prague from three to five attractively scheduled flights daily. SWISS will operate three of these flights itself with Avro RJ100 equipment.

All of these new flights have already been placed in reservations systems.