31.   The European Commission on Wednesday cleared the final installment of a mammoth government aid package to bail out the French national airline Air France.

32.   The French discount travel agency Nouvelle Frontiers has joined the bidding for the financially crippled French airline Air Liberte, a newspaper said Tuesday.

33.   The French airline Air France has introduced a second weekly flight from Johannesburg to Paris stopping over in Harare.

34.   The French airline already has code sharing agreements with both the U.S. carriers.

35.   There was no comment from the French airline.

36.   Though the heavily-indebted Swiss group refused to bail out the French airlines, it remains exposed to hefty costs of potential AOM and Air Liberte bankruptcy proceedings.

37.   Workers from French domestic airline Air Inter, the telephone company, tax and customs operations have all decided to strike beginning Monday, their unions reported.

38.   French airlines then suspended links with Algeria.

39.   France is suspending French airline flights between France and Algeria for a few days until new security measures are introduced, French Transport Minister Bernard Bosson said on Tuesday.

40.   French domestic airline Air Inter was running services almost entirely as normal on Friday despite a strike call by several unions, the company said.