An event in Seattle by one the biggest airlines in the US, Delta Air Lines was the venue for the carrier making a statement that after a lull in business in the past two years, the carrier is bringing the focus back onto the customer.

A new thrice daily service to Dublin has been announced by Bristol Airport, which promises to make traveling from Ireland to the US much easier for travelers than the existing option of flying through Heathrow airport.

Chinese player Air China has said that it will be increasing the number of flights that are currently available from Vancouver to Beijing. The airline offers ten flights a week between the two destinations, and plans to add two more. A release from the airline says that the new flights ...

India’s biggest domestic airline, Jet Airways has announced that it plans to meet the growth in demand on the India-China route, by having direct flights between the two countries by the end of 2011.

American Airlines is scheduled to start operating its nonstop JFK-Haneda flights on January 20, 2010. As a special offer, the airline has announced that travelers on this route stand to earn up to 15,000 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles for each qualifying roundtrip that they take till Apr. 30, 2011.

Air Arabia will no longer be allowed to operate flights on the Kathmandu-Kuala Lumpur route, says a directive from the International Relations and Human Rights Committee of the Nepalese parliament.

An interline agreement has been announced between Virgin Airlines and Emirates, which will open up a host of seamless travel possibilities to travelers from the US.

An official announcement has come from Lufthansa that the carrier will begin operations with the fifth Airbus A380 on its fleet. The new scheduled flights that have been announced will initially operate twice weekly services from Frankfurt to JFK in New York, starting February 18, 2011.

Indian budget airline IndiGo has announced plans to start international services from the middle of 2011 and has submitted a proposal for the same to the aviation ministry. The announcement says that the airline will be operating fifteen international routes to start with.

In a move that spells good news in bold letters for Canadians, Spirit Airlines has announced that it will be offering cheap flights on two routes – Fort Lauderdale and Myrtle Beach.

SkyWest Airlines has said  that the carrier plans to resume direct flights to Los Angeles from St. George on March 6, 2011.

Dubai’s first low-cost airline FlyDubai, which has been operating for just eighteen months, has announced a special offer on several of its flights. The focus is on making air travel cheaper during the New Year season.

Britain’s leading carrier British Airways says that the top destination for the airline in 2011 is Marrakech. Other destinations from the airline that were in the ten most popular lists include Maldives and Las Vegas.

Kingfisher Airlines has announced that it will be launching fourteen new flights on seven routes within India, which will begin operations from December 15, 2010.

The bankrupt Mexicana de Aviacion stands a good chance of resuming operations in the second half of 2011, since the flight attendants and the ground crew of the airline have agreed to a new labor contract. The carrier had put a halt to their operations in August 2010 and filed for bankruptcy a month later.

In the midst of facing heavy losses, and once again looking to the country to bail it out, Air India has refused to make public the details of people who have availed of free flights from the carrier, or the amounts that it cost the carrier to offer these free trips.

The Middle East based carrier Qatar Airways has announced that it will be increasing the numbers of flights being operated on its East African network. Twelve additional flights are being offered across Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

Condor, the German airline may be considering a launch of international service from West Florida in 2012. This is based on the comments of airport officials at Pinellas airport.

Philippine Airlines will be increasing services to the Philippine islands starting March 27, 2011. The new flights will serve to give travelers more travel options between Australia and Manila, and will now operate seven times a week, said the announcement from the airline.

A spectacular event in Hong Kong marked Cathay Pacific’s unveiling of its most recent service and product innovations. With more than 3,00 people attending, the carrier used the event as a statement to show how oriented and committed they are to innovation.

Close on the heels of the dirt cheap long haul airfares that were offered when the Christchurch – Kuala Lumpur flight was launched, Air Asia has now announced that it will be offering another special sale that will last for forty eight hours.

Air fares have been on the rise in New Zealand ever since Pacific Blue left the market.

Condor Airlines has announced that they plan to operate nonstop flights between Seattle and Frankfurt twice a week, starting in the summer of 2011.

AirTran has announced that they will be offering a daily nonstop Baltimore-Bermuda flight from the Spring of 2011. The flights will begin operating on April 7 and will be a seasonal service between BWI-Marshall Airport and LF Wade International Airport in Hamilton. The carrier has announced that the new service will continue until Oct. 24.

The proposed Houston-Auckland service by Continental Airlines, scheduled to begin in November 2011, is likely only to take off in 2012, due to a delay in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner delivery to the airline.

Domestic airlines in India today have been complying with the directives issued by the DGCA, and have begun publishing the various fare levels that are being offered for domestic travel routes on their websites.

A unique, first-of-its-kind- conference -  World Class Airlines 2011 - is being planned in the aviation industry, which is expected to change the way the industry currently works, by bringing in innovative ideas to increase sustainable practices in the aviation industry.

Nasair has announced that a new flight will be operated by the carrier into Dubai International Airport. Sources at Saudi Arabia’s smart airline say that this move is part of the carrier’s strategic expansion move that it is engaging in internationally as well as in the Middle East. There are currently ten flights operating between Saudi Arabia and Dubai, five of which are operating to Riyadh and five to Jeddah.

LAM, the flag carrier of the country of Mozambique has increased the weekly flight frequency of services to Tete.

The DGCA (Director General of Civil Aviation) of India has issued a directive to domestic airlines in the country, according to which all domestic carriers must display on their websites the air fares that they were charging based on routes and dates. This would become mandatory effective from Wednesday December 8, 2010.