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German airline Lufthansa Regional has switched its Düsseldorf service from Edinburgh Airport to Glasgow Airport.
From 8 April 2013, Lufthansa will run six flights per week from Glasgow, then a daily service from 24 June.
Glasgow Airport said it was delighted to host the route which connected two "economic powerhouses".
Edinburgh Airport said it could not understand the commercial logic behind the move and believed its service would have better served Scottish passengers.
Glasgow said Lufthansa's decision would see it host direct flights to Düsseldorf for the first time in 20 years.
Etihad Airways has looked at expansion for a long time and reported this week, it has identified two Indian airlines as potential targets for investment.
Etihad boss James Hogan wouldn’t be drawn on the names of the two airlines he’s been looking at, however all indications are going to be troubled Kingfisher Airlines who issued a statement saying it was in talks with the Gulf carrier. The other airlines could be its codeshare partner, India’s Jet Airways.
Etihad is keen to exploit India’s fast-growing aviation market after India opened the aviation sector to overseas investment for the first time in September of this year. “We’re looking at a couple of opportunities in India,” Mr Hogan said in an interview in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. “We’re going through the due diligence at the moment. If we believe we can meet the criteria, we’ll then discuss that with our board.”
If any deal is done, it would be a minority stake, “we don’t want to take over someone’s airline,” he added. Owned by Abu Dhabi’s oil-rich government, Etihad last year bought a 29.2 per cent stake in Air Berlin and has also expanded its global network through three other equity stakes including a 10 per cent holding in Virgin Australia, a 40 per cent stake in Air Seychelles and 2.987 per cent in Aer Lingus.
Virgin plans to compete with British Airways on Heathrow links with Scotland. It is to fly six round trips between the London airport and Edinburgh, with three round trips linking it with Aberdeen.
The airline says 150 people will be employed as a result of the move. Virgin Atlantic will take over landing slots from BMI, after it was bought by British Airways owner, IAG.
From 31 March 2013, the planes are to be operated by Aer Lingus, but will be in Virgin Atlantic livery.
However, European aircraft safety authorities have ordered the checks on nearly a third of the A380 fleet in service.
Hairline cracks were discovered on the wings on a number of "non-critical" brackets known as "rib feet" inside the wings during routine inspections, Airbus said.
Similar flaws were spotted earlier this month during the repair of the Qantas aircraft which suffered an engine blow-out after taking off from Singapore in November 2010.
The latest cracks have been described as more significant and it is believed that mainly A380s run by Singapore Airlines and Emirates were affected.
But Airbus's Justin Dubon told Sky News that with more than 2,000 such brackets in each wing - a total of 4,000 per plane - cracks on a small number of rib feet would not affect wing performance.
He added that the cracks were a result of the manufacturing process and not caused in flight.
Airbus aircraft are manufactured in pieces in its engineering centres across Europe and assembled in Toulouse - the wings are assembled in the UK, in the Cheshire town of Broughton.
The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued an order for A380 aircraft which have completed 1,800 flight cycles - take-off and landing - to be visually inspected by January 28.
Planes which have completed between 1,300 and 1,799 flight cycles are required to have the checks within the next six weeks.
With many of the A380 delivered to airlines recently, some of the aircraft which need repairs may still be under a manufacturer's warranty.
The world's largest jetliner, which has two floors and can carry up to 853 passengers, entered service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines.
The A380 costs $390m (£251m) on average after Airbus announced a price increase on Wednesday.