Lufthansa canceled 128 flights on Thursday, including 28 long-haul flights, as a strike by the airline’s technical and catering workers entered its fourth day. The 28 canceled long-hauls include flights to New York, Washington, Atlanta and Calgary.

Air Canada has reached an agreement in principle with Continental Airlines, the fourth largest carrier in the United States, to provide customers an enhanced travel experience through access to a broader network and seamless services provided in cooperation by the two carriers.

Continental Airlines Inc. has been named the best domestic airline, best airline for customer service and best airline for flights to Mexico in Executive Travel Magazine’s 2008 Leading Edge Awards. The award winners were selected by a survey of the magazine’s readers.

Virgin America is now offering guests an expanded on-demand menu that takes in-flight dining to new heights. Guests on all of Virgin America flights now have a new range of healthy, fresh menu options complimentary in First Class and available for purchase in the Main Cabin.

It’s a marriage long expected within European aviation circles but never consummated. Now it seems British Airways and Spain’s Iberia, long-term partners in the Oneworld alliance, are finally ready to take the plunge.

Ryanair announced today that, for the second straight year, it will reduce its aircraft from Stansted Airport in London, the Associated Press reports. In addition to cutting its London fleet by nearly a third, the airline will suspend operations at seven other airports in Europe: Basel in Switzerland; Budapest; Krakow and Rzeszow in Poland; Palma and Valencia in Spain; and Salzburg in Austria. High fuel prices and an inability to negotiate lower airport fees were cited as the primary reasons.