LAN Argentina will add 35 new international and domestic routes as part of an aggressive plan to expand the airline. The 20 additional domestic routes will allow LAN Argentina to fly to practically all destinations within the country, while the 15 international routes will offer options in Central and South America, the United States, Europe and Oceania.

Delta Air Lines will continue its rapid expansion into the Caribbean this December with the addition of its first flights to the French island of Martinique. Beginning December 16, Delta will add flights between its largest hub in Atlanta and Fort de France, Martinique in the French West Indies.

Virgin Atlantic is providing passengers with live text news throughout their flight. The service will give passengers up to date news stories, as they happen, straight to their seat back TV. Sky News, the award winning broadcaster, will be the provider of the news content, which will include breaking news, business news, sports news and match results, celebrity gossip and weather information.

Caribbean Star Airlines said last week it has received delivery of a new 50-seat turboprop plane, the second of four new aircraft to be put in service this year. Caribbean Star put one turboprop plane into service in January and will buy two more later this year, said Skip Barnette, president of the company and its sister carrier, Caribbean Sun Airlines. The airlines now have a total fleet of 20 planes.

Three weeks from now, Bolivian air company LAB will retake again to Venezuela’s Caracas and Colombia’s Bogota, adding also more frequencies to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Lima, plus four weekly flights to Spain’s Madrid. In the case of the domestic routes, in the next 15 days the company will include Sucre, Tarija and Trinidad to its regular schedule.

For the first time in six years, a charter airline will offer direct flights from Canada´s Sydney to Cuba´s sunny south next spring. Sunwing Vacations is expanding its market in Atlantic Canada with flights from seven cities in the region bound for resorts in warmer climates.