The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 44th annual Safety Report, which shows that the 2007 global accident rate of 0.75 hull losses for every million flights by Western-built jet aircraft was slightly higher than the 0.65 rate recorded in 2006.

United Airlines has named Pete McDonald as chief administrative officer and John Tague as chief operating officer -two key appointments that will streamline the organization and enable the company to accelerate improvement in both revenue and cost performance, while combining critical corporate functions to capture internal synergies and better enable execution of its business strategy.

Michael Register, an executive vice president with Nikki Beach Hotels and Resorts, says that Nikki is on the verge of signing a deal to build a property on Antigua. Last week, Nikki announced plans for a Grenada property.

Pleasant Holidays, which re-entered the Caribbean in March after a two-year absence, released its 2008-2009 Caribbean vacation brochure, featuring 11 destinations and 89 resorts.

Challenging the perks given to its upper category guests, a California woman sued NCL Corp. over not being able to get reservations in its specialty restaurants due to upscale passengers taking all the seats.

The House has passed a bill that includes a provision requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to make cruise lines’ shipboard crime statistics available to the public. The amendment passed by a vote of 395 to 7.