Even as REDjet took off from Barbados with its first plane load of passengers yesterday, it appeared that it was experiencing some turbulence in another one of its markets. The airline has informed customers who were planning to travel to Jamaica this week and next week that their flights have been cancelled.

Frontier Airlines and NCR Corporation have rolled out 75 NCR TouPort 70 kiosks to an additional 14 airports across the U.S. The deployment expands the existing footprint of Frontier Airlines’ kiosks, facilitating quick and convenient self-service check-in and other flight related services.

Southwest Airlines is more than doubling the number of markets able to connect to Mexico, through both Chicago Midway and Las Vegas. Twenty-six Southwest cities, primarily in the Northeast and Midwest, now connect to Volaris flights between Chicago Midway and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Gatwick Airport will soon get an extra weekly flight to the Caribbean island of Grenada. The new flight, which is operated by Virgin Atlantic, will depart on Mondays, beginning on October 31st 2011.

BA had previously run five flights a week from London Gatwick to St Lucia, but demand for flights to the idyllic Caribbean island has increased as holidaymakers look to get some sunshine during the grim British winter.

Nicaragua’s Tourism Minister Mario Salinas Pasos, in an exclusive interview for CND, announced the start of regular operations by Air Nicaragua beginning in July and featuring three weekly flights between that Central American nation’s capital and Havana.