German airline Lufthansa has also picked the Connexion system.

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The commission also ruled on a three-way alliance between Germany's Lufthansa, America's United and Scandinavian Airlines System, demanding that 108 slots, mostly at Frankfurt, be given up and some flights cut.

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At the Farnborough International Air Show outside London last week, Lufthansa Technik AG and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. announced coming tests of one environmentally friendly taxi system.

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