Alitalia on Monday joined the Air France-KLM Group and Delta Air Lines as a member of the airline industry's transatlantic joint venture, the airline said in a statement.
Virgin America on Tuesday will announce Philadelphia as the airline's latest destination, with three daily flights to Los Angeles and two daily trips to San Francisco.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for attempting to detonate a bomb sewn into his underwear aboard a Northwest Airlines flight on December 25, 2009.