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...timing couldn't be better, as air travel is approaching pre-9/11 levels. Moreover, U.S. financial houses are rapidly expanding in London, and the merger wave is in full bloom in Europe. "I'm surprised that EOS and MAXjet are still with us," says Andrew Lobbenberg, a transport analyst at ABN AMRO, "but they've gotten lucky because of the transatlantic cycle. Business travel is booming right...
...transport analyst Tim Marshall says, it "would be prudent to target the SME and leisure market rather than the global corporates," arguing that network depth, breadth and frequency are important to corporate flyers. "The presence of EOS may actually stimulate the business-class leisure market," says Marshall...
Portugal On Feb. 5, after a European Parliament deputy presented Portugal's Attorney General Fernando Pinto Monteiro with evidence that dozens of CIA planes had made stopovers in his country, he opened a criminal investigation into CIA-operated flights allegedly using Portuguese airports to illegally transport terrorism suspects...
Undergraduates continued to choose the popular Fung Wah Bus service as their mode of transportation home this past holiday weekend despite a recent accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet...
...seized in last month's raid in Irbil, and with an explosives expert on hand to explain why EFPs and other munitions could only have come from Iran, demonstrating a definitive link was easier said than done. The Iranians, according to the intelligence analyst, use Iraqi smugglers to transport weapons across the Iran-Iraq border. However, it is still Iraqi militant groups, not the Iranians, who, in the end, use the weapons against U.S. forces...