Alaska Airlines will begin nonstop, daily flights between San Diego and Maui and seasonal flights between San Diego and Puerto Vallarta this fall, it was announced Thursday.Alaska Airlines service between San Diego and Maui will begin on Oct. 1 and run year-round, according to the San Diego County Regional... 

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced Wednesday that it has resumed all flights to Europe and vice versa, following its six successful flights to France and Russia on April 19-20, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported Thursday.Last week the airline was forced to cancel 21 flights from the... 

British Airways cancelled all its short haul flights Tuesday after air traffic chiefs in Britain warned of a fresh cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland, the airline said in a statement. Following the latest information  about the path of the volcanic ash affecting UK airspace, we regret we will not be... 

Air New Zealand provisionally plans to operate seven flights to the UK and back in the next 24 hours to help clear the backlog of passengers from the six-day closedown of European air space due to volcanic ash clouds. UK airspace was among the last to be cleared and airtports will officially be allowed... 

Air Canada and other airlines cancelled flights out of Newfoundland scheduled for Monday morning as a precautionary measure amid concerns ash clouds from last week’s volcano eruption were heading toward the province.St. John’s, Gander, and Deer Lake were affected by an advisory said Angela Mah of... 

SAS Scandinavian Airlines would like to inform its customers that all SAS flights are cancelled on April 18 and 19, the company said in a statement.The exception, it said, were a few domestic flights in Norway and flights from the US departing on April 18 are not cancelled at this time. SAS is investigating... 

Emirates Airline has cancelled its early morning flights to London Heathrow and Gatwick as the impact of the Icelandic ash cloud continues to cause misery for tens of thousands of passengers in the Gulf region.To Saturday, more than 40,000 Emirates passengers have been impacted by the closure of airspace... 

U.S. airlines carried 52.6 million passengers in January, up 1.5 percent from January 2009, the federal government reported today.The increase in passengers came despite a 2 percent drop in the number of flights the nation’s airlines operated, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau... 

Turkey’s national airline company, the Turkish Airlines THY, will launch new flights to Sochi city of Russia.A statement by the THY said on Wednesday that the flights would start on May 25 and would be three times a week.The statement said Sochi would the 7th city of Russia which THY launches flights,... 

A security breach has delayed at least 14 flights at Los Angeles International Airport while authorities look for a man who didn’t undergo proper security screening.Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles says the man was picked out for secondary screening but instead grabbed his carry-on bag and went...