New airline in Bermuda bids for routes to Europe and the United States HAMILTON, Bermuda - Bermuda's newest airline in decades has applied to run direct flights to destinations in Europe and the United States, a published report said Saturday. Bermuda Star Ltd. has filed an application to fly direct to Cologne, Germany; Manchester, England; Newark, New Jersey; Orlando, Florida; and Chicago, The Royal Gazette daily newspaper reported. The application to the government's Air Transport Licensing Board says the airline plans to fly daily to Newark and Chicago, three times a week to Manchester, three times a week to Cologne, and twice a week to Orlando, the report said. The company wants to establish the first direct scheduled flights to mainland Europe with the Cologne flights, the application said. British Airways runs direct flights from London Gatwick Airport to this British mid-Atlantic resort island. The move was welcomed by the Bermuda Hotel Association as a step to address the island's traditional problems of expensive flights, lack of competition, and limited routes, the newspaper reported. Bermuda Star will use Boeing 757-200 jets for the Newark and Orlando flights, and Boeing 767-200ER craft for Manchester, Cologne, and Chicago, the application said. Leopold Kuchler, the Austrian honorary consul in Bermuda, and his wife Cynthia, applied to have Bermuda Star incorporated as an island company in May. _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp