A large contingent of students from Zhejiang province in China was traveling to the United States to spend a couple of weeks seeing part of America and learning English. Such groups represent the ideal of modern commercial aviation: the kind of educational and cultural exchange on which these students were embarking—nearly unthinkable a generation ago—is something the airline industry now enables on a commonplace basis.

Kenya Airways, a SkyTeam global alliance member, is on an expansion plan and preparing for its first Boeing 787 to be delivered next year. ATW European bureau chief Victoria Moores spoke with CEO Titus Naikuni in Nairobi.

ALPA’s statement this week that NTSB investigators are prematurely releasing operational data on Asiana flight 214 was met with a curt response from NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman during her media briefing Tuesday.

Does not appear allowing pilot to land 777 at SFO was improper

When Congress, US consumer groups and general media get on their soapboxes to complain about airlines, here is where they should really focus their efforts: avoiding a mid-air collision.

Congratulations to Air Canada, which today launched operations of its new leisure airline, rouge. Time was when it was quite the mode to launch a leisure version of your mainline carrier. The main criteria seemed to be to give it a jaunty name – remember Delta’s Song, United’s Ted (short for Uni-ted, get it?) and Air Canada’s own Tango and Zip. The other common factor was that none survived as each carrier discovered that stripping costs out of your so-called low-cost operation is not easy.