Air France KLM is looking to create a low cost carrier to benefit from the growing leisure market, the company said on Friday. The group is examining the development of its subsidiary transavia.com, which offers a mix of scheduled and charter flights, for low-fare flights from France to popular destinations such as Morocco, Tunisia and Spain.

Starting today, Aeromexico will increase its service of nonstop flights between Florida’s Orlando and Mexico City from four weekly flights to one daily flight. Likewise, the air company announced the inauguration of a second daily flight from December 11 to January 7, 2007.

Copa Holdings, S.A. and its Copa Airlines and AeroRepublica operating subsidiaries, released this week preliminary passenger traffic statistics for October 2006. For the month of October 2006, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic (RPM) increased 27.5 percent, while capacity (ASM) increased 19.4 percent.

TravelSpan GT of Guyana has been granted U.S. Transportation Department rights to offer three weekly roundtrip flights between New York (Kennedy Airport) and Georgetown, Guyana, beginning November 30. The flights, aboard 737 aircraft with two-class seating, will be operated by Xtra Airways on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. In-flight services will include hot meals and movies.

Chilean air company Sky Airlines got the green light to start operations in Peru and provide international coverage for passengers, cargo and mail from the Chilean cities of Santiago, Iquique and Arica to Peru’s Lima, Arequipa and Tacna. The flights will encompass such routes as Santiago-Iquique-Lima and Lima-Iquique-Santiago with seven weekly flights, as well as Arica-Tacna and Tacna-Arica with a couple of weekly flights.

Oneworld is to beef up its position with new services in Latin America with the addition of two more carriers in the region –LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador. The two newest carriers in the LAN alliance will become affiliate members of Oneworld as soon as the necessary joining technicalities can be completed. All parties have committed to ensure that this takes place as early as possible in 2007. With Chile-based LAN Airlines a full member of the alliance since June 2000, along with its domestic subsidiary LAN Express and Peruvian sister LAN Peru as affiliate members, the latest additions will mean Oneworld will have five Latin American airlines in its grouping.