AirTran Airways, the low-cost airline based in Orlando, Florida, the United States, has announced that it has expanded its mobile Web services in order to help the passengers manage their travel.

Virgin America, the low-cost airline based in California, the United States, has announced a partnership with Google in order to offer free in-flight Wi-Fi service to all of its passengers during the holiday travel season from November 10, 2009, to January 15, 2010.

Air Canada, the flag-carrier airline of Canada, has launched an application for BlackBerry, about two months after the carrier having done so for iPhone. Through this new service, the customers can get real-time information on Air Canada flights.

Deutsche Lufthansa, the flag-carrier airline of Germany, has announced that it will re-launch improved mobile phone and internet services (GSM/GPRS) initially on its long-haul flights between North America and Europe by the middle of 2010. For this, Lufthansa has teamed up with Panasonic, the Japanese electronics giant.

Sensis Corporation, based in Syracuse, New York, the United States, is developing a runway monitoring system which allows planes to land simultaneously on closely spaced runways, thus putting an end to passengers having to sit inside an aircraft owing to delays in taxiing to the runway and in taking off.

Aeromexico, based in Mexico City, Mexico, said it would allow passengers to use mobile phones on board its flights after Mexico lifted, on September 1, 2009, a ban on the use of mobile phones on board aircraft operating in the country.

The United States-based US Airways has become the latest airline to offer passengers Aircell’s GoGo in-flight internet facility.

Delta Air Lines has introduced paperless boarding passes by which passengers can get an electronic boarding pass on their mobile cell phones or iPods if they are on a non-stop flight out of Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah, the United States.

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Eurocontrol, the air traffic control (ATC) agency of Europe, has launched a new flight-data processing system based in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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The agency that investigates air accidents in the United States has warned that there is “a high probability” of the fault which led to the crashlanding of two Boeing 777s in 2008 happening to other aircraft.

Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle, Washington, the United States, has launched in-flight wireless internet service on a trial basis for passengers using Wi-Fi-enabled notebooks, smartphones and other personal electronics devices having wireless internet access.

Inflight mobile phone calls on Ryanair flights have taken off, with the Dublin-based airline saying that it has enabled mobile telephony on 20 of its planes. Later, technology for inflight mobile phone calls will be extended to all 170 Ryanair planes.

Keeping people connected, Emirates in-flight mobile telephone service has clocked up its 100,000th user this week, confirming a dramatic increase in calls this year. A total of 31 Emirates passenger aircraft are now installed with the AeroMobile service, the largest of any commercial airline.

SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier of Sri Lanka has opted for Kerala-based IT company IBS Software's iFly Loyalty, a product line under its iFly solution suite, for handling its airline loyalty management system.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has told its employees that one of its computers was hacked and that “personally identifiable information” of over 45,000 employees and retirees was “stolen electronically.”

IT major IBS, based in Kerala, has yet again added a feather to its cap with London Heathrow’s second largest airline and Star Alliance member bmi having selected iFly Loyalty, a product line under IBS’ iFly solution suite, to manage the loyalty programs for its passengers. bmi flies to destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Japan Airlines (JAL), the national airline and flag carrier of Japan, has conducted the world's first successful test-flight using biofuel made primarily of a non-food crop called camelina on one of the engines of a Boeing 747-300 aircraft.

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British Airways, the national airline and the flag carrier of the United Kingdom, is offering its passengers use of mobile phones, BlackBerries and data-enabled laptops on limited routes from September 2009.

United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation, based in the United States, is to offer in-flight internet service in its planes later in 2009.

  As a part of the efforts taking place around the world to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from aircraft that contributes to global warming, Continental Airlines, based in Houston, Texas, the United States, has conducted a demonstration flight using biofuel. 

Webjet, the internet-based travel portal located in Australia, has posted a 19 % increase in the number of people using its services in the second half of 2008.

Continental Airlines, based in Houston, Texas, the United States, is planning to become the first United States-based airline to fly a jet plane experimentally using biofuel made from a special blend of algae, the jatropha weed and jet fuel.

Air New Zealand, the national flag carrier of New Zealand, has successfully conducted the world’s first commercial aviation test flight using fuel from the seeds of the African jatropha plant.

Airbus Industrie, the aircraft-manufacturing giant based in Toulouse, France, has test-flown one of its Airbus A320 jets with new winglets designed and developed by Aviation Partners, a private corporation based in a Seattle, Washington, the United States, which produces and markets winglet systems.

Delta Air Lines, based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, has launched Wi-Fi in-flight internet service on 6 of its aircraft as a prelude to its plan to provide the wireless access service on all of its 330-jet domestic fleet by 2009.

Enerjet, Canada’s newest charter airline, has chosen Kerala-based IBS Software Solutions’ iFly Passenger Services System for its integrated reservations, ticketing, and departure operations. Enerjet is a privately held Canadian Corporation based in Calgary, Alberta.