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Passengers on Virgin America flight 404 from Los Angeles to New York stuck for more than six hours on the tarmac at Newburgh's Stewart airport on Satuday. Travelers complained they received little food or water, and had to take the last leg of their journey by bus.

The Jetstar Pacific Airlines will offer 500 free-of-charge tickets on local routes in Vietnam in 2010, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported Wednesday.

JETSTAR passengers booked on a Thailand-to-Sydney flight have been stuck on the resort island of Phuket since Monday because of maintenance problems.

Lufthansa in Thailand has launched a special promotion which is valid for booking for just one day. Under the deal, travellers can fly from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, as well as to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, from just THB 4,590 or THB 4,630 nett.

LONDON - Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across the world yesterday, but most European airports did not appear to be following a new US demand for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries.