But an official from Kogalymavia said it would take its Airbus A321 planes out of active use one by one for safety checks.
It installed showers on its Airbus A380 double-decker planes, as well as large bars behind the business-class cabin where passengers could mingle throughout the flight.
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It couldn't fill its Airbus A320s and expanded into routes like Las Vegas and Los Angeles that didn't get much traffic from Raleigh-Durham.
Qantas, Australia's largest carrier, said it will begin to return its Airbus A380 superjumbo jetliners to service this coming Saturday, 23 days after the blow-out of an engine on one of the planes forced an emergency landing in Singapore.
Boeing has teamed up with BAE (encouraging speculation that one day it will buy the firm and sell its Airbus stake) and others to offer a service package based on second-hand Boeing 767s bought from British Airways.
JetBlue, the low-fare carrier that flies to 15 cities in Florida, the Northeast and the West, does not charge for the service, and it is available on all 14 of its Airbus A-320 planes, according to Tom Anderson, the company's vice president for corporate planning and aircraft programs.
Next year, when it is expected to get the first of its Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, the airline will extend the ban to them as well.
"Aerospatiale is not going to hand its Airbus stake over to a joint company unless it gets what it wants in the wider defence merger", says one French source close to the discussions.Merging Europe's visions of the defence industry could prove as difficult as merging its companies.
Air Asia X began offering five direct flights a week from Kuala Lumpur to Stansted Airport in London in March, and has said it expects to keep at least 75percentt of the seats on its Airbus A340s filled.
Much the same applies to easyJet, which also shoves 180 seats into its Airbus A320s.
