In January 2011 I booked flights to Lamu, where our son lives, for travel on November 30. We were due to flights with Virgin Atlantic from Heathrow to Nairobi and onwards with Air Kenya. After the kidnapping of a French woman from a beach house on Manda, near where my son lives, we felt we should cancel... 

Charter Flights from Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Cuba will begin on March 21.The weekly service begins the week before Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit the communist island nation.BWI announced Tuesday that the flights are scheduled to depart at 3 p.m. Airport... 

Emirates has announced two additional flights a week to Northern Pakistan. From February 7th Emirates will serve its passengers in Lahore and Islamabad eight times a week. The airline will now be operating 47 flights into and out of Pakistan with an additional weekly flight operating to both Allama Iqbal... 

Virgin America says it will start flying to and from Philadelphia in April.The airline will offer three daily non-stop flights between Philadelphia and Los Angeles on April 4 and two daily non-stop flights between Philadelphia and San Francisco on April 10. Virgin America is partly owned by Richard Branson,... 

Aiming to make its presence felt in the tier-II cities, budget airlines GoAir will be launching four additional flights to Ranchi and Kolkata in February from here.From February 5, GoAir will introduce two additional flights from Delhi to Kolkata and Ranchi. Also, the airline will increase its frequencies... 

SpiceJet Airlines, which set foot in Mangalore last September has added a new destination to its flight services from the city. So far, it was operating from Mangalore to Chennai and Hyderabad. Sources close to SpiceJet have now told Daijiworld that it will begin Mangalore – Mumbai operations from... 

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and airberlin, Europe’s sixth biggest carrier, have launched the sale of joint codeshare flights.It follows last month’s announcement that Etihad Airways would become airberlin’s largest single shareholder.Using an Airbus A330-200... 

Tunisia’s flag carrier, Tunisair, will operate two weekly flights to the western coastal Libyan city of Misrata, the company announced on Thursday.The move comes three weeks after Tunisair resumed the Tunis- Sfax-Tripoli line which it now serves three times a week. Tunisair had suspended its flights... 

Blowing and drifting snow in Chicago forced the cancellation of at least 460 flights and may tie up commuters.United Continental Holdings Inc., the world’s largest carrier, canceled 200 flights at O’Hare International Airport, said Mary Ryan, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based company. Southwest... 

Porter Airlines will begin service to Washington Dulles International Airport beginning in April.The regional airline, which operates out of the Toronto Island airport, said it will offer three daily round-trip flights on weekdays starting April 16. It will also have one round-trip on Saturdays and two...