Air France would expand its network by starting new services to major Indian cities. The air line has also decided to take care of Indian flavours in its flights. It would provide vegetarian food and Indian newspapers and films on board. 

Air France intends to become a top class air service provider by developing strategic zones to get more passengers. The company had started its services from Bangalore in 2005 and from Chennai in 2006. It is now interested to start services from Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Pune.

Washington, Oct 5 : Hundred years since the Wright Brothers took wing many inventions have taken place in the field of aviation. Now, a website has compiled a list of the greatest innovations that have taken the world by storm.

The list of top 12 inventions has been amassed by aviation. com, reports Wired News.

1. Cabin pressurization: The average passenger doesn''t think about cabin pressurization until their yellow safety masks fall from the ceiling, but the reality is that if the technology hadn''t been developed during WWII, people wouldn''t be able to fly much above 10,000 feet.

Taipei  - Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan's largest, is losing its competitiveness in both passenger and cargo volume, a government report said Saturday.

According to the Transport Ministry report carried by Taiwan's Central News Agency, Taoyuan was number 15 in the world in cargo volume in 2007, down two places from 2006.

In Asia-Pacific alone, the airport was ranked number six for cargo, the same as 2006.

As for passenger volume in the Asia-Pacific, Taoyuan ranked 14 in 2007, down one place from 2006.

If the harassment at the airport with a series of checks was not enough the European Commission Regulation has asked all European Union airports to use virtual digital scanners by 2010. This scanner is a virtual strip search machines, which creates a 3D image of a naked body. Such a scanner has been opposed as it is next to a strip search. 

San Francisco - About 70 searchers combed the area around the crash site of adventurer Steve Fossett's plane Friday as scientists were due to test a small piece of bone found near the plane.

The small bone, said by police to be about 5 centimetres by 3 centimetres was the only sign of possible human remains at the remote site. But it was far from clear that it was even human.

Madrid - The technician who fixed a technical problem on a passenger plane that crashed on August 20 did not comply with the instructions of plane maker Boeing because the Spanish airline had not included them in its handbook, the daily El Mundo reported Friday.

The Spanair MD-82 crashed at Madrid airport after take-off, killing 154 and injuring 18 people. The plane was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997.

Before the flight, a technician inspected a temperature gauge that had broken down five times in 48 hours, according to El Mundo.