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SriLankan Holidays, the leisure arm of SriLankan Airlines is offering Indian children a chance to enjoy four exciting tours of the island nation in a discovery of the country's rich and varied diversity.

Despite economic uncertainty in the United States and some other parts of the world, it has been forecast that the worldwide market for business jets will continue to grow over the next 10 years, accounting for $300 billion in sales.

Sabre-connected travel agencies and corporations around the world will now get easy access to Dubai-based Emirates’ full content fares for the next 10 years through the Sabre global distribution system.

Emirates is offering passengers travelling to Dubai during the religious month of Ramadan two nights accommodation for a paltry US$57 a night per person. The offer, which runs from September 1 to 30, 2008, would involve six select hotels in Dubai, including the Marco Polo Hotel, Novotel World Trade Centre Dubai, and Hyatt Regency Dubai.

Ryanair, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and the largest low-cost carrier in Europe, has announced that the carrier will only allow flights to be bought through its Ryanair.com website and that bookings made through third-party price comparison websites will not be honoured.

Singapore Airlines, the national airline of Singapore, has taken delivery of its 5th Airbus A380 Superjumbo.

Air One, the airline based in Rome, Italy, has ordered 24 aircraft from Airbus Industrie, the aircraft-manufacturing consortium based in Toulouse, France.

Embraer, the Brazilian aerospace conglomerate that produces commercial, military, and corporate aircraft, is holding preliminary negotiations to sell the United States government the 314-B1 Super Tucano light attack and training planes.

JetBlue Airways, partly owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG of Germany, has said it deferred deliveries of 21 Airbus A320 jets. This has been done with a view to slowing down further the airline’s expansion in the midst of enormously high prices of jet fuel. 

The phenomenal rise in the prices of fuel is sweeping each and every sector of the aviation, the aircraft-making companies included. Airlines are reining in spending as they face losses that may total $40 billion in 2008.