Caribbean Star Airlines said last week it has received delivery of a new 50-seat turboprop plane, the second of four new aircraft to be put in service this year. Caribbean Star put one turboprop plane into service in January and will buy two more later this year, said Skip Barnette, president of the company and its sister carrier, Caribbean Sun Airlines. The airlines now have a total fleet of 20 planes.

Three weeks from now, Bolivian air company LAB will retake again to Venezuela’s Caracas and Colombia’s Bogota, adding also more frequencies to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Lima, plus four weekly flights to Spain’s Madrid. In the case of the domestic routes, in the next 15 days the company will include Sucre, Tarija and Trinidad to its regular schedule.

For the first time in six years, a charter airline will offer direct flights from Canada´s Sydney to Cuba´s sunny south next spring. Sunwing Vacations is expanding its market in Atlantic Canada with flights from seven cities in the region bound for resorts in warmer climates.

Wimco, a villa rental and hotel reservations company in Rhode Island, USA, recently announced new scheduled daily inter-island air service between San Juan and St. Barts. Wimco is the authorized air charter agent for Tradewind Aviation that will operate the scheduled daily inter-island service departing San Juan at 3 p.m. and St. Barts at noon.

The four US-based airlines bidding to win landing rights to the future ‘prestigious and lucrative´ rights on the U.S.-China route have upped their ante by lobbying future passengers for support. The four carriers –American Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines- have devised separate strategies to add the service to their Asia routes by wooing support from the public and businesses, in addition to pitching a winning bid to the United States Department of Transportation.

KLM has decided to outsource all its sales and reservations operations to Amadeus Altea Reservation, the travel industry´s only community-based, multi-channel sales and reservation platform. KLM is the third SkyTeam carrier –after Air France and CSA Czech Airlines- to pick Altea Reservation, which today drives airline ticket sales representing over 400 million passengers boarded every year.