Low-cost airline Iceland Express has licenced and launched a customised version of the dohop.com flight planner for its website.

China Eastern Airlines (MU) has announced daily flight on Dhaka-Kunming-Beijing route from March 27.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the UK has launched an investigation into how a Ryanair flight from Liverpool to City of Derry Airport landed at a British army base five miles away, wrties George Jackson.

Mesa Air Group, Inc. has recently announced that it will begin operating inter-island flights as go! beginning June 9, 2006 and will be offering one-way fares of $39.

Air Macao, the flag-ship air carrier in the special administrative region of Macao, said on Monday that it will launch a new air route to Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang Province.

Qatar Airways has launched daily direct flights to the city of Hong Kong with the inaugural flight touching down the Hong Kong International Airport yesterday afternoon.

China Airlines said it will stop over in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, on the Taipei-Vienna route three times a week starting April 25.

The US Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced several parameters for a nationwide smart-card-based Registered Traveler program to be run by the private sector.In a statement, TSA said it could approve qualified RT programs "by June of this year." But the agency apparently is leaving it in the hands of airports and private companies to invest "in approved screening equipment, fund additional screeners and/or obtain space for separate RT screening" in order to provide participants in the program with a speedier trip through security lines.

Air Canada Sunday announced that effective June 16, 2006 it will introduce non-stop service between Toronto and Shanghai.

Austrian Airlines Group is eyeing service to new destinations in Siberia."We are currently studying whether to start services from Vienna to Tjumen and Celyabinsk. We also hope to get permission to operate regular services to Kazakhstan during 2006," CCO Josef Burger told ATWOnline. In addition, Austrian plans to add 19 weekly frequencies to Eastern European destinations and 21 frequencies to Western Europe.