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A further threat that Northwest faces is the risk that its alliance partner, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), will make an alliance with British Airways PLC ( BAB). British Airways has an alliance with Northwest rival AMR Corp.'s (AMR) American Airlines.

 

Northwest hopes KLM will partner instead with Air France, which has an alliance with Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:DAL - News) .

 

That would make a cozy situation because Northwest just started its own alliance with Delta.

 

If KLM partners with British Airways "it could mean the Northwest alliance is dissolved," CEO Anderson said.

 

But in nearly 14 years of a relationship with KLM, "we've been at these crossroads in the past and always prevailed. I'm confident we're going to have success," he said.

 

Plus, if the two broke up, the divorce couldn't happen before late 2007 or 2008 and would take years to complete under the terms of the agreement.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030806/1545001302_3.html

 

 

US vs. Europa

Das Sommerloch treibt unglaubliche Blüten ...

 

Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., warned of a bumpy ride in the U.S. for European aircraft maker Airbus , as a stalwart of his state's economy, Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) , faces challenges abroad.

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"I'm just reporting to my friends in Europe that frustration in Congress with Airbus is a boiling kettle and it's boiling over," he said.

 

Inslee said the U.S. "has in my view been overly tolerant of very well documented and inappropriate financing of research and development at Airbus by European governments," he said. And European airports "have engaged in all kinds of chicanery" by offering scarce airport terminal "slots" to carriers who buy jets from Airbus.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030806/1857001498_1.html

 

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The Bush administration has dispatched teams of aviation safety investigators to Iraq and to major capital cities in Europe and Asia to determine if their commercial airports can be defended against terrorists who might try to shoot down passenger planes using shoulder-fired missiles, senior American officials say, The New York Times reports in its Thursday edition.

 

The inspections at airports in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra as well as in Athens, Istanbul, Manila and several other foreign capitals where American air carriers have regularly scheduled flights are part of the administration's response to recent intelligence reports suggesting that a terrorist attack using small heat-seeking missiles may be imminent, probably overseas, the Times said.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030806/2355001664_1.html