British airports operator BAA said on Wednesday it was committed to improving service standards, but warned that price controls proposed by the country’s competition watchdog would make that job harder.

Carnival Cruise Lines appointed Ruben Rodriguez to the new position of executive vice president of marketing and guest experience, effective October 29.

Worldspan ranked 76 on the 2007 InformationWeek 500, revealed at a September gala awards ceremony, part of the exclusive InformationWeek 500 conference in Tucson, Arizona as Travelport GDS announced.

Air Canada shares surged last week, riding an airline industry wave and rising 5.7 percent on expectations that Canada’s biggest carrier will enjoy lower costs in the second half of the year.

As part of a longer-term goal to provide an integrated tour service throughout South America, Metropolitan Touring Ecuador, one of the largest tour operators in Ecuador, has acquired Receptour Peru.

A British businessman was facing jail today for helping launder a 1.4 million euros fortune conned from an Irish airline boss. London’s Southwark Crown Court was told that the victim of the scam, Noel Hanley, four years decided to buy four Aer Lingus Fokker planes for his airline, Euroceltic Airways, in Waterford.