Delta Air Lines in September will launch a new SkyMiles Award Travel structure to provide SkyMiles members greater flexibility and more options when redeeming miles, including the ability to again book the last seat on a flight using miles and three redemption tiers for award travel within the continental United States, Alaska and Canada to destinations worldwide.

TAM and TAP Portugal are broadening the codeshare agreement signed between the two companies to offer daily connections between Portugal and Argentina. The partnership allows TAP to sell, with its own code, the flights operated by TAM to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Airfare monitoring website FareCompare.com reported that Northwest Airlines upped its domestic fares by nearly $80 roundtrip in over 4,000 city pairs for both business and leisure travelers.

Tourism Corporation Bonaire has announced that beginning December 20, 2008 Delta Air Lines will add a weekly nonstop flight from New York to and from Bonaire. Delta Air Lines flight 553 will depart John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturdays at 10:35 a.m. arriving into Bonaire’s Flamingo International Airport at 4:25 p.m.

American Airlines will open another new route from South Florida to the Caribbean this fall when the airline begins nonstop service from Miami to the southern Caribbean island of Grenada.

American Airlines, which offers more flights from South Florida than any other airline, will begin daily nonstop service from Miami to Antigua this fall -- the only nonstop service currently scheduled between Miami and the eastern Caribbean island.