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...cost skies. He's on the road at least twice a month and estimates that 10% of his travel is on discounters. His round-trip fare cost $47 on Ryanair, and would have cost at least four times as much on British Airways, British Midland or Lufthansa. But he's found out that reduced flexibility is part of the price business travelers pay to get a cheap fair on the discounters. "When your ticket is completely nonrefundable, you have to make your flight," he says ruefully. "That can be a major problem when meetings run late...
...Around the world: Israeli security agents are testing a substance found on a cargo plane; Brazil's defense minister grounded a Lufthansa plane after officials found a suspicious powder on board; the US consul in Sydney, Australia was evacuated after a staff member found a letter with a "chemical residue." In Kenya, two suspicious letters mailed from the U.S. have tested negative for anthrax...
...German airline Lufthansa is putting armed sky marshals on its flights. British Airways has abruptly taken away the fancy cutlery from business class so it won?t be used as fancy weaponry. And Sabena, Belgium?s perennially troubled airline, is offering "Fear of Flying" seminars to its nervous clientele. Amid the worst falloff in passenger traffic in a decade, European airlines are all scrambling to convince the traveling public that it?s still safe to fly in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States...
...European airlines supported the idea of state assistance, though many said they were worried about their competitive strength against U.S. rivals, which are receiving $15 billion in government aid to compensate for lost business during the grounding of U.S. airliners two weeks ago. Germany?s Lufthansa said it was against state intervention. "Subsidies would influence competition and are not what the market requires," said spokesman Thomas Jachnow. Lufthansa had been forecasting earnings as high as $690 million for the year, but CEO Jürgen Weber said "it will require immense efforts on the part of all Lufthansa staff...
...conference calls with the airlines. Although those calls, which also included officials from the Department of Transportation, began with just the major airlines of the ATA participating, as the afternoon wore on, Garvey started to bring in every US airline, and eventually every major foreign air carrier, including SwissAir, Lufthansa and Aeroflot...