Indian carriers Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have agreed to form an alliance that will help them both rationalise and reduce costs while providing improved service and a wider choice of travel options.

Qatar Airways has again topped polls at the 19th annual TTG Travel Awards, being voted best airline in the Middle East.

A day before Pacific Blue launched Auckland-Sydney flights, celebrations started in the New Zealand city with a travel industry party hosted by Virgin Blue Group CEO Brett Godfrey.

A Novotel hotel has opened at Hyderabads new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in southern India.

Virgin Blue's sister airline Pacific Blue will launch direct flights between Brisbane and the Solomon Islands from December 2, as well as adding three extra seasonal flights each week between Wellington and Brisbane.

In the face of the global economic crises, Norfolk Air has suspended some of its services between Australia and Norfolk Island.

Hit by the global financial crisis, businesses are cutting back on trips and forcing airlines to either slash prices or reduce capacity, analysts say.

JetStar will begin daily flights on the Sydney/Gold Coast-Auckland route next year as part of what the Qantas offshoot describes as part of a pan-Asia strategy.

Virgin Blue Airlines has launched its first foray into north-west Victoria, touching down in Mildura for the first time after a flight from Melbourne. The plane was full of guests to celebrate the carrier's expansion in to rural Victoria.

A tourism development and promotion accolade has been presented to Sukhothai Airport in the Thailand Tourism Awards 2008.

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Airlines has launched long-term initiatives aimed at safeguarding the environment.

Airports of Thailand, the public company which runs many of the country's airports, is aiming to develop more non-aeronautical revenue.

Thai Airways' medium-term strategy is to maintain its long-haul and local services, regional director Krittaphon Chantalitanon told a business travel, incentive travel and conventions event in Bangkok.

Some airlines will not survive the global economic slump, an industry association has warned in Singapore, with the next 12 to 18 months being "extremely difficult" for Asia-Pacific carriers.

Airbus sold 31 planes last month, taking gross orders for the first nine months of the year to 785, giving the European planemaker a lead over strike-hit Boeing in new orders and deliveries.

Safety recommendations concerning Airbus single-aisle and Bombardier CL-600 aircraft maintenance have been revised by the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, DC.

Kingfisher Airlines is likely to drop its new international services as a result of the financial crisis hitting the Indian airline industry, just as Jet Airways is looking at "optimisation" of its long-haul network.

Goodrich Corporation has signed a long-term Flight Hour Agreement (FHA) with SilkAir, a regional airline wholly owned by Singapore Airlines.

Sydney Airport Corporation’s massive shortcomings were brutally exposed this week when a magazine survey that might usually be considered barely relevant ranked it amongst the world’s worst.

Early investigations into the latest Qantas incident have found no evidence suggesting a mobile phone or laptop computer caused the plane's uncontrolled descent above Western Australia, officials say.