Crystal International Travel Group, Inc. has entered a 30-day exclusivity period with Mexicana Airlines to finalize terms of a partnership program with Crystal’s IntelliFares service. Fabrizzio Busso-Campana, Mexicana’s CEO, said that the two companies are working together to balance the planning features of IntelliFares with Mexicana’s air service.

JetBlue is currently exploring a variety of ways to better serve business travelers “We believe that low fares, improving access to content, fare flexibility and quality seat assignments for those who book at the last minute are elements at the top of the list of features travel managers and travel agents find most valuable,” a JetBlue spokesman said in statement to Travel Pulse Daily.

As a prelude to future cooperation, TAM and Lufthansa have signed a memorandum of understanding. In the coming months, the two airlines will be testing diverse forms of working together. As a first step, they are instituting codeshare flights on national and international routes.

Aerolitoral has become the fourth airline to sign an agreement to have the Ramco MRO System efficiently maintain and engineer its fleet.

American Airlines will add another new Caribbean destination from New York this fall when it begins nonstop service from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to St. Lucia.

Air Comet is penciled in by Spain’s Pilots Trade Union as the one national airline that fails to comply with all safety guidelines, according to local newspaper ABC. This conclusion comes on the heels of a recent poll conducted by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos among 613 pilots and flight commanders. The survey also blacklisted companies like Air Pullmantur, Vueling and Clickair as unsafe and unsecured carriers in Spain.