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Delta adds Heathrow to New York flights

Delta Air Lines is adding a third daily non-stop flight from Heathrow airport to New York JFK airport.

The new Heathrow to New York flight will be operated by Delta’s joint venture partner Air France. Together Delta and Air France will offer four non-stop daily flights between Heathrow and the USA, with a flight to Atlanta as well as the three to New York.

The third flight to New York will give passengers the choice of either a morning, early evening or late evening departure.

But with the shortage of slots for airlines at Heathrow, Air France says it will discontinue its service from Heathrow to Los Angeles when it begins the Heathrow to New York flights. Delta currently also operates flights from Gatwick airport twice daily to Atlanta and once a day to Cincinnati.

New terminal opens at Dubai airport

A new terminal is opening at Dubai International Airport tomorrow that will increase capacity at the airport by 50%.

Just as Heathrow Terminal 5 was designed for the exclusive use of British Airways, the new Terminal 3 at Dubai airport will be for the sole use of national airline Emirates.

When it is fully operational Emirates Terminal 3 will be able to handle a massive 43 million passengers. The new terminal is being opened in phases. From October 14th flights will depart to and from New York, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and Toronto in the Americas, plus local flights to Doha, Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jeddah, Damman and Riyadh.

Subsequent phases will open flights to the Middle East and Africa and then Europe, the Indian subcontinent, the Far East and Australia.

New airline Kiss to fly from Gatwick and Manchester

A new airline Kiss Flights has started selling seats for summer holidays to the Greek Islands, the Red Sea, Turkey and the Canary Islands.

The new airline has been set up by Gatwick airport based aviation broking company Meridian Aviation. According to its website, Kiss Flights is a "dynamic travel company ... offering an exciting programme of daily flights starting in summer 2009 to eleven of the most beautiful destinations in Europe from both Gatwick and Manchester airports".

Flights for Kiss will be operated by Viking Airlines, which is based in Sweden, using two Boeing 737s. Viking was set up in May 2003 and operates charter flights on behalf of a number of tour operators in the Mediterranean.

Lufthansa launches mobile boarding passes at Heathrow

UK passengers departing from Heathrow airport will be able to use mobile phone boarding passes when they fly with German airline Lufthansa.

Lufthansa introduced boarding via mobile phone on all its flights in Germany in the summer and last month extended this to 1,000 daily flights from Germany to almost 400 destinations in Europe. The UK has now been selected as a key market for mobile phone boarding outside Germany.

From October 13th Lufthansa passengers flying from Heathrow will be able to use mobile boarding passes on all Lufthansa non-stop flights to Germany as well as to most onward destinations in Europe. The airline says the service will be gradually introduced from other UK airports in the coming months.