Air Canada is to double its daily Vancouver- Beijing service and increase the frequencies of its Toronto-Shanghai non- stop flights. The added Vancouver-Beijing daily flight will operate between July 1 and September 30, using a 211-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

Along with the Aruba Tourism Authority, the Bermuda Department of Tourism and the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board, JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced they would help passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport obtain passports.

Since its first commercial flight on January 1, Caribbean Airlines has recorded seven days with an On Time Performance (OTP) of 100 percent, where all flights system wide departed at the scheduled times or earlier.

Air Canada has been recognized as the airline industry leader in market innovation.

A low-fare transatlantic carrier wants to bring its service to the London-New York market this summer. Zoom Airlines filed an application with the Transportation Dept. asking for permission that would let it start daily service June 7 between London (Gatwick) and New York (Kennedy) using 767 aircraft on the route.

Spirit Airlines, the American carrier, isn’t letting up on its route expansion, which is growing faster than the list of 2008 presidential wannabes for the White House.