Ryanair has announced cutbacks of 20 per cent at Dublin Airport, and simultaneously announcing 39 new routes to the Canary Islands. This winter the Irish low-cost airline will re-locate four aircrafts away from the gateway, resulting in a cut of the total number of flights to fewer than a thousand during the period. Also for the winter 2009 schedule, Ryanair will launch 39 new routes to the Canary Islands from across Europe. There will be 16 new routes to Gran Canaria, 15 to Lanzarote and eight to Tenerife.

Aeroflot has vowed to modernize its image by hiring new eye-catching stewardesses. The CEO of the Russian carrier has admitted to firing a lot of stewardesses for being rude to passengers, and will be looking into hiring new girls no larger than a certain size. They will also be looking into changing the color of their currently blue-and-orange uniforms, which apparently evokes revulsion in passengers.

Delta Air Lines has announced a sale counting both domestic and international flights. More than 20,000 fares are on sale in the ongoing “Fall Sale”. Seats are available on flights to hundreds of cities across the U.S., as well some international destinations, including London and Tokyo. Domestic fares are available from $ 59 (ca. € 42), one-way excluding taxes, while international flights are available from $ 159 (ca. € 113). Book by August 3 for international flights and by August 14 for domestic.

Book by August 5th and take advantage of fares as low as USD29 on JetBlue flights in their Fall Flight Sale. Fly between New York and Boston, Long Beach and San Jose, Fort Lauderdale and Nassau (Bahamas) for 29USD - one way excluding taxes and charges. Lots of other routes with great fares are also available. Travel must take place between Spetember 9th and December 16th.

Ryanair has added a total of 39 routes to the Canary Islands in its winter 2009 schedule, from airports throughout Europe.In other news from Ryanair, they will operate between Lille and Oporto, three times per week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) starting September 3rd.

British Aiways has announced a large number of schedule reductions, especially on long haul flights in its winter schedule. London - Sydney (via Singapore), Johannesburg (19 to 14 weekly), Dubai (21 to 17 weekly), Hong Kong (3 to 2 daily), Chicago (3 to 2 daily), Newark (3 to 2 daily), Seattle (10 to 7 weekly), New York JFK (7 to 6 daily), Los Angelses (3 to 2 daily) to mention some of the cutbacks due to the current financial position of British Airways and flagging demand. BA announced earlier this month that it is reducing winter capacity by five per cent in responsefollowing scalebacks in its winter operations at Gatwick Airport.

Monarch Airlines will operate a twice weekly service from Birmingham Airport to Larnaca in Cyprus.

Norwegian Air Shuttle will launch new routes from Copenhagen to Vienna, Dublin, Warsaw and Rome (Fiumicino) starting in August. Starting August 21st, flights to Dublin and Vienna will operate on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Starting on August 17th flights to Warsaw will operate all days except Saturday. Finally starting on August 20th flights to Rome will operate Tusday, Thursday and Sunday. Fares for all routes have been seen at 199 DKK including taxes and charges, except Rome at 299 DKK.

In other news from Norwegian, they will start a new route to Dublin operating on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

August 5th is all change at Helsinki Airport. Starting on that date, all flights for a particular airline will depart from the same terminal - no matter whether it's domestic or international. All Finnair flights will now arrive and depart from terminal 2, whilst other airlines will now be serviced from terminal 1.

Following the grounding of MyAir, Wizz Air will operate from their Bucharest Baneasa base to Catania and Bologna/Forli from 21 September and 28 October respectively. The flights will be operated twice a week initially.

EasyJet will fly daily, except Friday from Luton to Tel Aviv from November 2nd.

Travellers to the UK face the prospect of airport disruption if staff from the government’s new border force carry out a threat to strikes, reports the UK's Sunday Times. The two unions representing all 4,100 immigration officials who check passports at the UK’s air and sea ports object to plans to require them to carry out intimate body searches and other duties that have traditionally been the work of customs officers. The first of several strikes could come as early as next week, targetting the 5th of August for the start of a two-day walkout.

Flying with RyanAir, here's a tip 360travelguide.com to actually make some money when travelling on the no-frills carrier. According to the site, Ryanair’s weakness, is its on-board pricing structure: a cup of coffee, for example, costs €3 or £3, and passengers can ask for their change in either currency. The trick, therefore, is to pay for your coffee with a €50 note and ask for your change in sterling. Instead of getting back €47 — worth less than £42 — you receive £47, making a profit of £5 and cancelling out the online check-in fee.

Aer Lingus will start a daily service from Heathrow to Shannon on October 25.

Hellenic Imperial will start a weekly service from Birmingham to Athens this weekend, aiming to make it twice weekly next month.

Air Pacific will start a twice-weekly service from Hong Kong to Fiji in December.

Icelandair will start a daily service between Glasgow and Reykjavik from August 27 with fares as low as £180 return. Likewise Icelandair will start services between Reykjavik and Brussels from June 2010 - perhaps prompted by Iceland's application to join the Common Market.

Virgin America was voted best US airline in Travel and Leisure's yearly survey, for the second year running. JetBlue, 3rd last year and Midwest, 2nd last year, take the following spots. The only new airline in the top 10 came in 4th, WestJet airlines.

In the International airline category, Singapore Airlines came in first - again, again - followed by Qatar (not ranked last year) and Emirate (2nd last year). Apart from Qatar, Virgin Atlantic (6th), Air New Zealand and Asiana airlines were new to the list in relation to last year.

Flycheapo.com has counted the number of European low-cost routes, airports and countries. The Number of European low-cost airline routes is 4659, flying between 353 airports in 44 European countries. All in all there are 46 active low cost airlines in Europe. By checking www.momondo.com, you can find fares on the vast majority, if not all these routes - even the ones you had no idea existed.

Book by July 30th, Alaska Airlines has announced its Fall Preview Sale with cheap flights to dozens of cities including Sacramento, Miami, San Diego, Portland and Austin. Travel is valid on Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday between Aug. 18 and Nov. 18 and fares start as low as $57 one-way, excluding taxes and charges.

Dreaming of the sandy beaches, palms and warm blue oceans, then look look no further than Delta Air Lines Hawaii flight sale. Book by August 5th, and travel between August 22nd and December 16th (except Thanksgiving) then you can book flights to Honolulu from select U.S. cities and fly to Hawaii for as low as $163 each-way - excluding taxes and charges. are extra).