101.   Air New Zealand and United Airlines have signed a partnership agreement to strengthen their services in the South Pacific, the two airlines said in a statement Tuesday.

102.   Also, the airlines will be able to give out tickets booked through to the end-destination on trips that require transfers between the two airlines.

103.   At the same time, Lufthansa said it is examining possibilities for cooperating with the three airlines.

104.   Between the two airlines, service from Japan eventually reached eight times a week.

105.   Beginning last year, the two airlines jointly provide six weekly services on the Kuala Lumpur-Vienna-Kuala Lumpur route under a code-sharing arrangement.

106.   British Airways, which owns the two airlines, wants to merge the companies.

107.   But the two airlines extended the deadline to provide more information to the Justice Department about a deal between United and American Airlines.

108.   Canadian Ambassador Stephen Heeney said that the signing of an agreement between the two airlines removed an important barrier to a bilateral agreement.

109.   He did not name the other airlines.

110.   If both deals are approved, the two airlines would control half the U.S. market.