Melbourne Airport has been honoured by Travel + Leisure Australia magazine as one of Australia's top 20 tourism innovators in its inaugural tourism innovator awards.

Japan Airlines (JAL) announced its intention to sign a code share agreement with the Japanese cargo start-up Galaxy Airlines. The proposed agreement is subject to the approval of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.

US Airways understands that the end of the year is crunch time for Dividend Miles members to qualify for the next tier of Preferred status. That's why the airline created the Everything Counts promotion - a new opportunity for members to earn extra Preferred qualifying miles between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.

Bangkok Airways (PG) is up front in responding to the mission of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that all airlines must be using Electronic Ticket (ET) on all routes by the end of 2007. Of late, PG's implementation of ET went successfully on all its domestic routes in July 2003, whilst flights to/from Cambodia and Laos had it in place in mid 2006.

A health care company has invented a pair of electrically charged socks to help ward off deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on long flights.

On 5th October, Qantas Freight announced that it would add Melbourne-Auckland to its overnight trans-Tasman freight services from 27 November 2006.

On 5th October, Qantas introduced online check-in, allowing domestic passengers to check-in for flights over the internet at http://www.qantas.com.

On 2nd October, Qantas announced a partnership with luxury hotel brand Sofitel that will see the hotel group operate the airline's new International First class lounges in Sydney and Melbourne.

Australia's Virgin Blue has thrown its support behind Sir Richard Branson's global call to reduce aircraft fuel emissions.

Three Italian doctors stranded in Chicago for 36 hours when an airline cancelled their flight finally did what frazzled flyers around the world have only dreamed about: they sued the airline - and won.