After a gap of over 3 years, Myrtle Beach International Airport in South Carolina, the United States, is offering its first non-stop international flight, starting in early 2010.

Canadian North Airlines, based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, has announced that it is cancelling flights on some routes and reducing the number of flights on some others owing to what it calls “a saturated market in Yellowknife.”

Air Canada, the flag-carrier airline of Canada, has announced that it will operate direct, seasonal flights between Montreal and Athens; between Montreal and Barcelona; between Toronto and Athens; and between Toronto and Barcelona from June 3, 2010, to October 18, 2010.

Emirates Airline will introduce its double decker Airbus A380 aircraft on its Bangkok, Thailand and Toronto, Canada routes starting June 1, 2009 from Dubai.

President Obama is providing indirect economic stimulus to passengers traveling via WestJet airlines!

Air Canada, the flag-carrier airline of Canada, recorded a colossal loss of $1 billion in 2008 because of what the airline described as record-high prices of fuel, declining demand for air travel, and unfavourable foreign exchange that hit earnings.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, has announced that it will begin, from the summer of 2009, transition to “cashless cabins” onboard flights within the United States and to and from Canada. Receipts will be given to passengers on request.

Air service twice a day between Portland, the largest city in state of Maine in the United States, and Nova Scotia in Canada is being started in February 2009.

Three major airlines of Canada – Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz Air and WestJet Airlines – have adopted a policy that would reaquire a disabled passenger or an obese passenger seeking a second seat free of charge to produce a doctor’s note in order to obtain the concession.

Southwest Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, has applied to the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) for international route authority to operate flights between the United States and Canada.

WestJet Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, plans to start flights to four cities, including San Francisco and San Diego in California, the United States, in 2009.

After an absence of 12 years, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the national airline of the Netherlands and also a part of Air France-KLM, is resuming service to Calgary, the largest city in the province of Alberta in Canada, with non-stop flights to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport from May 3, 2009.

Canada’s highest court has upheld a ruling that obese and disabled people have the right to two seats for the price of one seat on domestic flights.

Porter Airlines, a regional passenger carrier based at Toronto’s City Centre Airport in Canada, has launched a new service between Toronto City Centre Airport and Chicago’s Midway International Airport in the United States.

A new airline called Enerjet will be launched in Canada in 2009 by a group of former executives of WestJet Airlines Limited.

Porter Airlines, the regional passenger carrier based at Toronto City Centre Airport, Canada, will start flying to Midway International Airport, Chicago, the United States, from November 12, 2008.

Skyrocketing fuel bills have taken its toll on yet another airline: Air Canada, the flag carrier of Canada and the country’s largest airline, has suffered a 21% drop in its profits in the second quarter of 2008.

The ambitious plans of Air Canada to renew its fleet has run into rough weather with aircraft maker Boeing Company, based in Chicago, the United States, saying that it will deliver the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to the airline at least 2 years later than originally promised.

Transport Canada, the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in the country, has been found guilty of laxity in overseeing the aviation industry properly. 

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has ordered Porter Airlines Incorporated, a regional airline based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to “trim” its weekday schedule for flights from Toronto to Newark, New Jersey, the United States.

Frontier Airlines, based in Denver, Colorado, the United States, has decided to raise the charge for taking antlers on its planes to $100 from $75.