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British holidaymakers' love for Tenerife has made Thomsonfly the world¡¯s most popular airline to the Canary Island. Official statistics from ANEA (the Spanish state owned company that owns and manage all Spanish airports) covering the period November 2007 to March 2008 show that of the 2,389,603 visitors to the island during last winter, over 9%, or 209,645 holidaymakers, flew from UK airports with Thomsonfly, the largest proportion for any airline.

Starbucks is boosting its European presence with and agreement to license 150 new locations in Britain, France and Germany over the next three years with SSP, the US coffee company said today.

Ryanair has launched its villa hire website, ryanairvillas.com. Announced five weeks ago, it has already attracted advertising from property owners in 20 European countries.

The Italian government's €300 million loan to ailing flag carrier Alitalia is in line with EU law, its chairman said Wednesday. Aristide Police said: 'The funds are compatible with EU law.'

Passengers flying in and out of Heathrow have faced the worst delays in seven years, caused in part by the chaotic opening of Terminal 5. CAA compiled figures released today showed that Heathrow performed worse than Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle in he first three months of this year.

Noxious-smelling fumes have poured into airline cabins and flight decks - sparking alerts on eight Manchester Airport flights, The Manchester Evening News reports. And on one flight pilots donned emergency oxygen masks, while another air crew felt 'light headed' after take-off, according to official reports obtained by the newspaper

The Chief Executive of Virgin Atlantic said the world airline industry needs a radical increase in prices to survive surging fuel costs and slowing economic growth, Bloomberg reports. Surcharges imposed by airlines on tickets are only recovering about one-third of fuel-price increases, Steve Ridgway said in an interview.

The chaos greeting passengers at the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 may produce a windfall for shareholders of owner Ferrovial, Bloomberg quotes Steven Fernandez, an analyst for Exane BNP Paribas in Paris, saying. The problems may give British regulators ammunition to force the sale of at least one of the seven UK airports run by BAA, he says.

Irish Stockbroker NCB is expecting a raft of profit warnings from Irish and UK airlines throughout the winter following recent guidance from the industry which 'may prove overly optimistic', the Irish Independent reports.

Air travellers faced worse delays on average at UK airports in the first quarter of 2008 than they did in the same period last year, according to official figures. During January to March 2008, the overall number of scheduled flights arriving on-time - defined as early to 15 minutes late - at the 10 UK airports monitored by the CAA fell by 4 percentage points to 68 percent, statistics released today showed.

The Health IT sector in India is still considered to be in its infancy but, that has not deterred investors who poured close to US$100 million into healthcare firms during 2007, up from US$41 million in 2006.

Plans for a new global system to measure and record the carbon footprint of beverages on their packaging labels were launched on 10 April.

The city known as the Las Vegas of Asia, Macau, attracted 27 million tourists in 2007, surpassing Hong Kong for the first time.

The global trend towards sustainability creates new opportunities for New Zealand exporters, along with new requirements from customers and potential new regulations to consider.

Asia is fast becoming a global leader in the aviation industry with Singapore leading the way in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) sector.

Pondok Cabe air base in Tangerang (near Jakarta) is about to be re-developed as an alternative to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, for low cost airlines.

The number of new mining and energy projects in Australia continues to grow.

A push to expand the use of New Zealand pine in China was spearheaded with the New Zealand Treated Timber Design Awards which were completed recently.

On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an historic formal apology today to former students of Indian Residential Schools and sought forgiveness for the students' suffering and for the damaging impact the schools had on Aboriginal culture, heritage and language.

The widely-held belief that passengers crowded aboard planes are exposed to a high risk of catching infectious diseases is exaggerated, an Australian government study has found. Outside air entering an aircraft cabin at altitude is essentially sterile and the airflow pattern and frequent air exchanges minimise the spread of infections, the report said. It adds: 'The risk of transmission of infection on board an aircraft is probably no greater than, and perhaps less than, other environments where large numbers of people are gathered together.'