• The FAA has warned San Diego officials that the city’s Oceanside Municipal Airport must stay open, after a city-sponsored economic study looked at alternate uses for the land

• CSA Czech Airlines had announced that its cargo terminal and catering operations will be spun off and operated as subsidiaries

• Cochin International Airport has invited expressions of interest for the appointment of an aviation consultancy to support its proposed maintenance, repair and overhaul project

• ACE, the parent company of Air Canada, is planning to sell off its heavy maintenance unit to private investors, while planning to add an El Salvador-based Aeroman plant to its network

• CAPA notes that the government of Vietnam has embarked on a massive plan to modernize and expand its aviation sector, with a view to becoming Asia’s fourth largest aviation market by 2025

• Tunisia’s tourism industry expects a record 2007 to follow a record 2006 as it continues to recover from the post-9/11 tourism downturn, made worse in this case by a 2002 attack on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba