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...areas around the newly busy airports. When Buzz started service to France's bustling port of La Rochelle in March 2001 with four arrivals a week, they were the first international flights ever to land at the little airport. "The impact was immediate," says airport director Thomas Juin. "The traffic was much heavier than we anticipated." By the beginning of 2002 Buzz had increased the flights to nine a week after more than 25,000 people had used the service, spending 35.34 million in La Rochelle's hotels, restaurants, car-rental agencies and other businesses. One reason that Buzz launched...
Those kinds of expansion programs sometimes meet opposition from locals, concerned about the effects of pollution and noise. Jürgen Rösner, a leading member of an anti-air-traffic-noise group in Hahn, has tried to raise awareness of the dangers. But in an area where unemployment reached 12% at the end of the 1990s - and where more local people are now employed at the airport than before the Americans left - Rösner is fighting a losing battle. "We can't manage to activate the public," he complains...
...before. Dijon, previously accessible only by road or train, got its Buzz link in March; the northern French city estimates that British visitors will bring in at least 35 million this year. Officials, noting that already around 20% of British passengers are business travelers, plan to exploit that traffic by promoting the city as a location for conferences and conventions. They calculate that for British companies a three-day conference in Dijon, including air fares and hotels, would be cheaper than meeting in London. Hoping to make Dijon the gateway to the rest of Burgundy, airport director Daniel Lefebvre says...
...cost carriers now account for about 25% of scheduled passenger traffic between Britain and the rest of the European Union, and 7% of European air traffic overall. And with the market on the move, more traditional airlines are developing budget strategies. Last March, U.K.-based BMI British Midland launched its budget arm, bmibaby (get it?), with flights from England's East Midlands Airport. bmibaby says it met its 2002 sales forecasts in the first three months of operation and come October will fly budget services from Cardiff International Airport to nine destinations across Britain and the Continent...
AFGHANISTAN Murder Attempt A man who narrowly failed to explode a car bomb in central Kabul was an al-Qaeda member attempting to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said local officials. Only a traffic accident prevented the half-ton bomb from going off in a high-security area that includes Karzai's offices, the American embassy and the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers. The bomber's car collided with another vehicle and then aroused suspicions by immediately speeding away. Police chased it and caught the driver but not his passenger...