British Airways and oneworld partner, TAM Airlines, a LATAM Airlines Group company, will forge closer ties from October this year when they begin a codeshare agreement on flights to Sao Paulo and beyond.

From all indications in Paramaribo and monitoring its online booking site, Surinam Airways (SLM) will end its trial run to Orlando, Florida, from Paramaribo via Georgetown, Guyana, on October 1, and recommence service on that route in December.

Air Europa, the Latin American specialist airline, has announced a new twice weekly service from London to Asuncion via Madrid, to be launched this December.

British Airways (BA) will launch a thrice-weekly service to the Peruvian capital Lima, and a twice-weekly frequency to San José, Costa Rica from ay 2016.

Caribbean Airlines confirms that its international flights scheduled for departure from Kingston and Montego Bay today, have been affected by many of its Jamaica-based pilots who have signed up to operate these flights, and fell ill.

Seaborne Airlines announced that it will introduce nonstop service between the carrier's hub in San Juan's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport and Antigua and Barbuda.