British Airways is offering its customers a worldwide sale, with both one-ways and returns available. Travel to European destinations from £ 42 (ca. € 54), one-way including taxes and charges. Transatlantic as well as many Asian destinations are available from £ 279 (ca. € 355) for return flights. Book by November 11.

easyJet is filling the void left by the collapse of Sterling, by launching a new route from London Gatwick to Copenhagen. The route is set to launch on January 15, 2009, operating daily, with tickets going on sale on November 15.

Icelandair are set to cancel all of its winter flights from its base at Glasgow Airport. Due to the ongoing financial crisis in Iceland, all flights have been suspended between December 4 and 28, as well as January 8 to March 22, 2009. Flights will still be operating in the New Year’s Eve period.

Lending a hand to travellers affected by the Sterling collapse, easyJet and Ryanair have introduced services exclusively for Sterling passengers left stranded by the collapse. easyJet is offering one-way tickets from £ 35 (ca. € 45) including all taxes, one-way on the three routes from Copenhagen to London, Berlin and Milan. Ryanair is offering € 100, all-inclusive rescue fares to destinations in Aarhus, Billund, Gothenburg, Oslo Torp and Stockholm Skavsta.

Lufthansa has acquired the majority of the British airline bmi, complementing its 30 per cent stake in the airline, by an extra 50 per cent holding, currently owned by the airline’s chairman. It is expected that Lufthansa will make a bid on the remaining 20 per cent, currently owned by SAS.

Ryanair has announced seven new routes from its base at London Luton Airport. Four of them were launched on Monday and Tuesday, running to Beziers (France), Derry (Northern Ireland), Kaunas (Lithuania), Szczecin (Poland) and Trapani (Italy). The two remaining routes will fly to Biarritz (France) and Rzeszow (Poland).

SAS has re-launched is route between Copenhagen and New Delhi, after originally being operated in 2001-2002. The route will be serviced three times weekly in the winter period, until March. The airline has also launched a route to Bangkok from Stockholm. The route is also a winter period only flight, but will operate until April instead of March.

Virgin Atlantic is offering a sale on first class seats. Fly from London Airports to big city destinations around the globe. Travel on selected sates between the end of November this year and the beginning of January next year, with fares available from £ 1,200 (ca. € 1,530). Book by 10 pm (GMT) on November 25.

The Danish carrier Sterling has files for bankruptcy, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, mainly around Europe. The entire fleet of 27 aircrafts has been grounded. After negotiations with several potential investors broke down late Tuesday night, the airline has no other option than to turn the key. Sterling Airlines was founded in 1962, is the third European airline to fold after the recent collapse of XL Airways and Zoom Airlines.

Norwegian has launched 11 new routes from its new base at Copenhagen Airport. Sterling was operating 40 routes from the airport, and Norwegian will so far operate 11 of them. From November 6 routes will fly to Aalborg, Alicante, Malaga, Nice, Oslo and Stockholm. Routes to Oslo, Stockholm and Aalborg will be operated daily, while the rest will be operated 2-3 times weekly. As soon as possible routes to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Krakow, London, Pisa, Prague and Rome will be launched.

Other airlines are also adjusting its schedule after the collapse of Sterling. SAS is augmenting the number of flights on its services between Copenhagen and Gothenburg as well as Malmo to Stockholm, both services previously operated by Sterling. Spanair will from the summertime double its number of services to Barcelona from one to two daily flights, as well as to extra services in the weekend to Malaga.

Clickair will launch a new route between the two Spanish destinations Bilbao and Palma from the end of March next year.

Ryanair has announced that they from November 4 will close its base at Valencia Airport. The closing will mean the axing of 70 weekly flights, affecting around 750,000 passengers yearly, and just about 750 jobs. The closing of the base comes after a dispute with local authorities concerning the allocation of marketing funds.

American AirTran Airways has announced a sale which is included all of the destinations in the carrier’s network. One-way tickets are available from $ 49 (ca. € 38), excluding taxes. Destinations include cities all over the US, e.g. Atlanta, Boston, New York and Orlando. Travel until February 11, 2009. Book by November 11.

Aer Lingus is offering fares on sale, where you only need to pay the taxes. Travel from Irish bases at Dublin and Cork to destinations as Amsterdam, Paris and Prague. Travel between November 4 and December 18 and again from January 12 to February 12, 2009.

Delta Air Lines will add nine new routes to the Caribbean and Latin America this December. New flights will be launched from Atlanta to Tegucigalpa in Honduras, Guayaquil in Ecuador, Manaus and Recife-Fortaleza in Brazil and Santiago in the Dominican Republic. From New York JFK the carrier will launch flights to Buenos Aires in Brazil and Bogota in Columbia, while Nashville will get a new route to Cancun in Mexico. Besides, Delta Air Lines plans to increase frequency on already existing routes to Latin America and the Caribbean from its base at Atlanta.

Aer Lingus is continuing its positive development by announcing nine new routes for its summer schedule of 2009. The routes will fly from Aer Lingus’ bases at Belfast, Cork and Dublin. The fares have already been set on sale. From Belfast they will fly to Lanzarote, Milan and Munich. From Cork they will fly to Lanzarote, Lisbon and Rennes. From Dublin they will fly to Catania, Newcastle, Sicily and Sofia. Additionally, Aer Lingus will boost capacity on 17 of its already existing routes.

Ryanair will launch seven new routes from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport. This week, new routes will be launched to Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Knock, Szczecin and Tenerife. On November 3 the route to Paris Beauvais will be launched.

British Airways has stopped operating its service between Manchester Airport and New York. British Airways’ plan is to direct all of its international flights through either London Heathrow or Gatwick. The last flight was operated on Sunday October 26.

US Airways will from May 13 2009 launch two new routes from its base in Philadelphia. The routes will run to the British city of Birmingham and Norwegian capital Oslo. The transatlantic services will be operated on daily basis. Tickets have already been made available for booking.