11 AUG: There’s renewed speculation today about the prospect of Jetstar setting up a base in Hong Kong.

11 AUG: A woman who has posed for US magazine ‘Playboy’ was exposed again at Orlando airport in Florida on Monday.

9 AUG: New York’s Kennedy airport is experiencing a soaring crime rate, the New York Post reports today.

8 AUG: The family of Ryanair passenger Per-Erik Jopnsson, 63, claims he was offered a sandwich after suffering a heart attack during a flight from Britain to Sweden on Sunday - and was then asked to pay for it.

8 AUG: Cathay Pacific is investigating claims that a male pilot and female flight attendant engaged in a sex act aboard one if its planes.

8 AUG: A Sydney newspaper carried a story yesterday about efforts by two mayors to generate support for construction of Sydney’s second airport on the Central Coast, about 100km north of the city.

8 AUG: An entrepreneur in the NZ city of Taupo wants to operate trans-Tasman air charters into the central North Island lakeside resort.

8 AUG: Falling consumer confidence is hitting airline shares, The Australian newspaper noted at the weekend.

5 AUG: Air France yesterday denied claims that only male flight attendants were allowed to serve disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn when he flew with the carrier because he’d propositioned so many female crew.

5 AUG: French air crash investigators were accused yesterday of "protecting" Airbus after it emerged that implicit criticism of the planemaker was cut from last week’s report on the 2009 crash off the coast of Brazil.