Starting summer of 2008, Sterling will start two new routes between Copenhagen and Valencia and Murcia in Spain. This adds to Sterlings established route network to Spain consisting of Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga og Mallorca. Copenhagens Airport report that traffic to spain has increased 10,8% in 2007 - not least thanks to AirBerlins route to Majorca.

MyAir will launch two new routes in December 2007. Starting on December 3rd from Milan (Orio al Serio) to Venice (Marco Polo), scheduledon Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Fridays, leaving Milan at 12:55 and Venice at 6:55. Flights take 50 minutes. Starting on December 15th, from Bucharest (Baneasa) to Brussels (International), scheduled for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday’s, leaving Bucharest at 13:13 and Brussels at 15:30. Tickets are on sale as low as €2.99 one way excluding taxes and charges.

FlyMonarch.com claims to be the first European airline that offers passengers to pay using the online payment system PayPal, as an alternative to payment via credit and debit cards. Through its close association to eBay, Paypal claims to have more that 115m accounts in 190 countries, with 15m account holders in the UK alone. Not only airline passengers can take advantage of this new offer, also travel agencies now have an alternative payment method to credit cards.

PayPal announced similar deals with US carriers United, Northwest and Southwest since the summer of 2007.

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