US Airways Bolsters Its trans-Atlantic Portfolio with Birmingham and Oslo

Business Wire, Oct 22, 2008

Airline Will Serve 23 trans-Atlantic Destinations from Its Philadelphia Gateway Next Summer

PHILADELPHIA -- US Airways (NYSE: LCC) customers will have a new United Kingdom option and their first Norwegian offering next summer when the airline inaugurates service to Birmingham and Oslo from its international gateway at Philadelphia International Airport. These new routes complement Tel Aviv service, which was announced earlier this year. The two routes are subject to foreign government approval.

Birmingham becomes the fifth United Kingdom destination US Airways serves, while Oslo is the airline's second Scandinavian destination after Stockholm, Sweden. The two seasonal routes will be operated with Boeing 757 ETOPS aircraft configured with 12 Envoy seats and 164 seats in the main cabin.

Customers may book beginning Oct. 25 at usairways.com and through global distribution channels. Schedule detail is as follows:

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Senior Vice President, East Coast, International and Cargo Operations Suzanne Boda said, "We're thrilled to expand our presence in the UK with Birmingham and offer our customers their first Norwegian option in Oslo. We appreciate the support of Birmingham and Oslo officials, as well as the continued support and commitment of the Philadelphia City Division of Aviation."

US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates approximately 3,200 flights per day and serves 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. The airline employs more than 34,000 aviation professionals worldwide and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers our customers 18,000 daily flights to 965 destinations in 162 countries worldwide. In the first eight months of 2008, US Airways ranked first in on-time performance among the ten largest U.S. carriers according to the Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report. And for the tenth consecutive year, the airline received a Diamond Award for maintenance training excellence from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its Charlotte, North Carolina, hub line maintenance facility. For more company information, visit usairways.com. (LCCG)

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