> New airline in Bermuda bids for routes to Europe and the United States > > 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 company wants to establish the first direct scheduled flights to > mainland Europe with the Cologne flights, the application said. Not true, depending on whether they are using "direct" in the British sense (i.e. nonstop) or American sense (i.e. same aircraft or flight number, regardless of number of stops). Avianca had direct flights routing from Colombia to Bermuda to Azores and on to mainland Europe in the 1950's. David Ross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/