US Airways to Serve Paris/Frankfurt Nonstop From

Charlotte, To Add Manchester, England, Route From Philadelphia Arlington, Va. (PROTEXT) - US Airways plans to expandinternational service from its Charlotte, N.C., and Philadelphiahubs in Spring 2000 with daily nonstop flights between Charlotteand both Paris and Frankfurt, and with the addition of nonstopservice between Philadelphia and Manchester, England. Paris and Frankfurt will be the second and third majortransatlantic markets served by US Airways from its Charlottehub. US Airways inaugurated nonstop Charlotte-London service inJune. Manchester will be the seventh transatlantic destination tobe served by US Airways from the company's Philadelphia hub,complementing existing flights to Frankfurt, London, Madrid,Munich, Paris, and Rome. "These new routes underscore the rapid growth of Charlotte asan international gateway and Philadelphia's leading role intransatlantic air service. They will increase our breadth oftransatlantic service and will create tremendous new economicbenefits for commerce, as well as travel and tourism, for a vastnumber of communities on the US Airways system," said US AirwaysChairman Stephen M. Wolf. US Airways is filing applications today with the U.S.Department of Transportation for the Charlotte-Paris andPhiladelphia-Manchester routes. This will enable US Airways tooperate one daily nonstop flight in each of these markets. TheCharlotte-Paris service will begin on April 13, with the returnParis-Charlotte flights starting on April 14. The Charlotte-Frankfurt service will begin on May 18, with Frankfurt-Charlotteflights starting the next day. Philadelphia-Manchester service will begin on May 25 withreturn flights starting on May 26. Manchester is the second USAirways destination in Great Britain. US Airways currently flies to London's Gatwick airport fromPhiladelphia and Charlotte. US Airways also has applied tooperate service between Pittsburgh and London. US Airways will operate the new services with the Boeing 767-200 aircraft, offering 24 premium Envoy Class seats and 179 seatsin the Economy Class cabin. With these new services, more than 135 communities served byUS Airways, the US Airways Express carriers, US Airways Shuttleand MetroJet will have convenient flight connections over USAirways' three international gateways, Charlotte, Philadelphiaand Pittsburgh, to US Airways' growing transatlantic routenetwork. US Airways operates 472 jet and US Airways Express nonstopflights daily from Charlotte Douglas International Airport,serving 100 destinations, positioning Charlotte as a majorinternational gateway. US Airways and US Airways Express togetherenplaned more than 11 million passengers at Charlotte in 1998. At Philadelphia, US Airways and the US Airways Expresscarriers operate 389 daily flights nonstop to 92 destinations.Together, US Airways and the US Airways Express carriers enplanedmore than 8 million passengers at Philadelphia InternationalAirport in 1998. US Airways, US Airways Express, US Airways Shuttle, and low-fare MetroJet fly to 202 destinations worldwide, including 38states in the U.S., Bermuda, Cancun, Grand Cayman, Montego Bay,Nassau, San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Croix, and theCanadian destinations of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, andLondon, Ontario. For additional information on US Airways' flight schedules andfares, contact your professional travel consultant or US Airwaysat 1-800-428-4322, or visit US Airways' web site atusairways.com. ots Original Text Service: US Airways Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: David A. Castelveter of USAirways (USA) 703-872-5100 Web site: http://www.usairways.com

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