MONROEVILLE — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to build a new, seven-story hospital on the site of a former hotel in the suburb of Monroeville.

UPMC bought the Palace Inn hotel near the Pennsylvania Turnpike for $19 million in March. At the time, the health care network said it would convert the building into a health facility.

But according to a filing with the local planning commission, UPMC now plans a 334,000-square-foot hospital and a parking garage on 16 acres. The plans also include an emergency room and a cancer center.

A UPMC spokesman confirms only a "full-service" hospital is planned.

PITTSBURGH — Delta Air Lines will launch a direct flight from Pittsburgh to Paris' Charles de Gaulle International Airport in June 2009.As part of the deal, Pittsburgh International Airport will waive landing fees for two years. The Allegheny Conference and the state will provide up to $9 million in subsidies for two years should revenues fall below the estimates.The flight will be Pittsburgh's only direct link to Europe since airlines cut hundreds of flights at Pittsburgh International Airport after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Beginning in June, the Pittsburgh-Paris flight will fly every day, except Tuesdays and Fridays.Allegheny County Executive Director Dan Onorato said re-establishing nonstop service between Pittsburgh and Europe has been a priority.