Association of European Airlines (AEA) CEO Athar Husain Khan has pushed back against the suggestion that European airlines are protectionist, redirecting the focus onto other, less liberalized markets.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is lobbying American Airlines to add service to Beijing, an airport executive said in an interview at World Routes 2014.

Garuda Indonesia has re-launched services between Jakarta and London Gatwick and is aiming to boost frequencies to daily by next summer.

Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) has launched a “carbon accreditation” program similar to the one that has been in place in Europe since 2009.

Calgary-based Westjet is using its daily, seasonal flights from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Dublin, Ireland as a testing ground for future European expansion, airline CFO Vito Culmone told analysts at the Cowen and Co. Global Transportation & Aerospace/Defense Conference in Boston.

Alaska Airlines—which this month is adding new flights from its Seattle-Tacoma hub to Detroit, Baltimore and Albuquerque—will continue to add routes to major business centers to serve its core Seattle customers.

Southwest Airlines sees “plenty” of opportunity for expansion in the north of South America with its existing fleet of Boeing 737s and will begin increasing its international service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida by 2017 or 2018.

Air Seychelles is planning to start Airbus A320 operations later this year, with a single aircraft, and is in codeshare talks with Air Austral and Air Madagascar.