Just the tonic we needed after walking to work on a cold, blustery March morn: Richard Branson is mulling over introducing a direct service between London and Kerala. Pressed during a holiday to the south Indian region about whether a connecting flight is on the cards, the Virgin Atlantic boss offered this gnomic reply: "It could be, but there is no immediate plan". Okay, it's hardly a ringing endorsement, but it has got Londonist......

BA are to withdraw sponsorship of the London Eye from next month. The airline says its 'sponsorship priorities have changed', and it no longer wishes to support the attraction, which it has sponsored since the wheel's inception. So who's going to take over? Well, it was revealed today that Boris has a £1 million campaign fund to play with. Might we see straw barnets atop every pod? How about Wagon Wheels, those wholesome chocolatey......

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways has announced a new London-U.S. route to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to begin on 23 April, 2007. This will help open up Virgin to the midwest and heartland of the U.S. It will also be a convenient hub for travel to and from Canada and the north and northwest of the USA. Currently the only direct flights to Canada Virgin provides stop at Ottawa and Quebec, leaving the western......

Keep saving those air miles. Alan Watts from Harrow is about to swap his for the ultimate upgrade – a ride into space. Mr Watts, manager of an electrical engineering firm, has accumulated over 2 million air miles on Virgin jets. And that’s enough to qualify for a free trip on one of Richard Branson’s fleet of space ships, due to enter service in 2009. I saved up my flying club miles to go......

Two members of the gang who raided Ernest Jones in Richmond, and took £120,000 worth of Rolex watches, were on day release from prison. The London cab driver accused of rape by 'the sister of a British film star' has been cleared. Wendy, the Virgin Atlantic stewardess who repeatedly screamed "We're going to crash! We're going to crash!" after the London to Las Vegas flight she was working on hit 'severe turbulance' is today being......

If you're thinking of traveling to Australia next summer you could be one of the first passengers on the new gargantuan Airbus A380. It seems that London is set to be one of the first cities to play host to the world's largest passenger aircraft when Singapore Airlines begins using the plane on flights between here and Sydney. Virgin Atlantic is also planning to use the A380 but not before 2008. The wait may......