Aeromexico on April 6 will begin nonstop service between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Monterrey, Mexico, with continuing service to Mexico City. The flights will operate three times per week aboard Aeromexico’s Next Generation Boeing 737 aircraft.

Alternative Canadian carrier Porter Airlines will expand to the U.S. with the start of Toronto-Newark flights on March 31. Porter Airlines was launched 15 months ago, offering high frequency and a simplified fare structure on short-haul routes out of Toronto. It will operate seven roundtrips every weekday from Toronto’s City Center Airport to Newark, with two roundtrips on Saturdays and three on Sundays.

New York-based JetBlue Airways will add its first international service from Florida next month with the launch of daily nonstop service from Orlando to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, starting March 6.

Ryanair announced its 26th European and fifth Spanish base in Reus Barcelona. From October, Ryanair will invest $140 million in a couple of new aircraft and a dozen routes that will deliver 1,000 jobs and over one million passengers for Tarragona.

The founder of JetBlue Airways wants to start a new Brazilian airline and is in negotiations with Brazil’s Embraer plane maker to buy 36 mid-range jets, a leading Brazilian newspaper reported Tuesday.

A union representing British Airways Plc pilots has described the carrier’s plan to start a subsidiary named OpenSkies as a “Trojan horse” aimed at reducing pay and conditions for staff.