Cubana de Aviacion has inaugurated a direct flight between Santiago de Chile and Havana in an effort to boost the flow of Chilean visitors to Cuba.

JetBlue Airways yesterday become Puerto Plata’s first low-fare airline, and the only carrier to provide nonstop, daily year-round service to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK), with connecting service to 12 other U.S. destinations.

A partnership between Delta Air Lines and Chateaux & Hotels Collection gives Delta SkyMiles members 500 miles per stay at any of the lodging group’s properties in France, Belgium, Italy and Spain, with a double miles bonus in effect for the winter.

As if on cue, airlines are responding to oil’s latest surge by pushing ticket prices even higher.

Up to three American Airlines jets carrying passengers will be outfitted with anti-missile technology this spring in the latest phase of testing technology to protect commercial planes from attack.

British Airways next week is slated to unveil the details of its plans for a new, separately branded transatlantic airline serving the U.S. with nonstop flights from cities outside the U.K.