Virgin America announces flights to Hawaii -- Virgin America is adding Hawaii to its route map. The carrier will fly to both Honolulu and Maui, serving both destinations with one daily round-trip flight from its main hub in San Francisco. Honolulu flights begin Nov. 2. Flights to the Kahului airport on the island of Maui begin Dec. 3. Hawaii, of course, is a popular holiday destination for many Americans. Ben Mutzabaugh/USA Today

United Airlines gives fliers permission to ... well, you'll see soon enough (Video) -- While low-fare rival Southwest Airlines is again pushing weddings and low fares this month in its advertising, United Airlines is launching a new ad campaign from ad agency McGarryBowen New York that emboldens - sure why not! - passengers onboard United flights to "seize the journey." If that sounds a little aggressive, so be it. Lewis Lazare/Chicago Business Journal

Woman with cancer kicked off flight from Hawaii to San Jose -- A woman with cancer was kicked off a flight just before it left Hawaii bound for California on Monday after employees with the airline told her she couldn't fly without a doctor's note. Elizabeth Sedway, who suffers from a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma, along with her family, was booted from an Alaska Airlines flight from Lihue to San Jose. Kale Williams/San Francisco Chronicle

Low oil prices should change airlines' planning, consultants say -- Airlines are practicing restraint for now, but they may get used to a new normal of low oil prices and begin changing their conservative approach to adding capacity, two Chicago-based consultants for Strategy& say. Most airline executives maintain that low oil prices are not a new normal but a temporary blip. This has led most airlines to say they will not be opening new markets or changing fleet and capacity plans despite oil being in the $50-per-barrel range. Madhu Unniikrishnan/Aviation Daily

GRAPH: Where air travelers leave behind the most change -- Travelers left more than $675,000 in loose change at Transportation Security Administration airport checkpoints last year. Where did passengers leave the most money? About $41,500 in loose change was discarded and never picked up by travelers at Los Angeles International Airport in fiscal year 2014, an amount second only to the $42,550 left behind at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Jonathan Lloyd/NBC LA

Kanye West, photographer, settle lawsuit over airport attack -- Kanye West and a paparazzo he attacked have settled a lawsuit, at least in part with a handshake and an apology. West was sued by Daniel Ramos after the 2013 attack outside a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and the case was scheduled to go to trial next week. Ramos' attorney Gloria Allred wrote in a statement issued Tuesday that the case had been settled and West had apologized to her client. AP

Coast Guard helicopters to operate out of Point Mugu -- U.S. Coast Guard officials announced this week that their air crews and helicopters will operate out of Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu while they look for a permanent home for a new base of operations for helicopter crews serving the greater Los Angeles area. The Coast Guard has leased hangars and support buildings at Los Angeles International Airport since 1962. But the facility will no longer be available as of September 2016 because of an airport expansion. Ventura County Star

Win a trip to Southern California and a $2,500 shopping spree -- John Wayne Airport, in partnership with the Costa Mesa Conference and Visitor Bureau and South Coast Plaza, invite Calgary and Vancouver-area residents to enter for a chance to win an all-inclusive trip to Costa Mesa, located just minutes from the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Entries will be accepted until May 16, 2015, and can be submitted at travelcostamesa.com/freegetaway. JWA News Release

City petitions court to reverse airport ruling -- The city of Ontario asked an appellate court on Tuesday to set aside and reverse a judge's ruling that upheld decades-old agreements that gave Los Angeles control and ownership of Ontario International Airport. The petition said the agreements are not valid because no citywide vote was held in Ontario on the issue of whether to sell the Inland airport to Los Angeles in 1985, as required by law. Richard K. De Atley/Riverside Press-Enterprise

Living in the Age of Airplanes - preview on an A380 -- I was a fortunate guest for the in-flight preview of "Living in the Age of Airplanes", a new National Geographic film by Brian Terwilliger, that is narrated by Harrison Ford, with an original score by Academy Award-winning composer James Horner. The film opens this Friday in IMAX, giant screen, digital and other special specialty theaters but on Monday, Emirates hosted a reception in its new lounge at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and then invited guests on board one of the carrier's newest double-decker A380s for a special film preview flight over the Los Angeles area. Harriet Baskas/Stuck at the Airport

FAA hit by cyberattack, finds no damage -- The Federal Aviation Administration discovered malicious software from email in its computer system in early February, but the agency said Tuesday it found no damage from the cyberattack. "The agency immediately took steps to block and contain the virus and clean any affected computers," the FAA said in a statement. "After a thorough review, the FAA did not identify any damage to agency systems." Bart Jansen/USA Today

As FedEx swoops, TNT express's airlines up for sale again -- It's d�j� vu all over again. Yogi Berra's famous saying applies nicely to Europe's logistics sector. TNT Express has agreed to a second takeover as many years, this time selling itself, if all goes well, to FedEx Corp. after its previous planned tie-up with United Parcel Service unraveled over competition issues. An inevitable consequence of this $4.8 billion cash deal is that TNT's airline business is on the block again too. Robert Wall/Wall Street Journal

FedEx deal is just the beginning of a big trend -- Finally! Jim Cramer is overjoyed that someone knocked some sense into CEOs in the U.S. They're starting to realize what great benefits there are to a strong dollar and are taking action. One example of a CEO taking action was when FedEx CEO Fred Smith took the bull by the horns and made the decision to acquire Dutch freight forwarding company TNT Express for $4.8 billion. Abigail Stevenson/CNBC