Colombia civil aviation director Alfredo Bocanegra has ordered an investigation into the Dec. 20 crash of an Aerosucre Boeing 727 freighter that killed five of six crew members aboard the aircraft, including the flight’s captain and co-pilot.

Lufthansa Group low-cost subsidiary (LCC) Eurowings will equip 69 Airbus A320 family aircraft with Inmarsat GX Aviation broadband, with full roll-out anticipated by mid-2017.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ordered Ireland to recover illegal aid received by Irish airlines Aer Lingus and Ryanair in the latest development of a long-running case.

The governments of Australia, China and Malaysia have long said the underwater search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will end when a 120,000 sq km region along the so-called Seventh Arc in the southern Indian Ocean has been combed for the wreckage—work that is expected to be complete in January.

American Airlines has been awarded $5.1 million by a US federal jury in an antitrust lawsuit against global distribution system provider Sabre, a total that will be tripled to $15.3 million under the terms of US antitrust law.

The department confidently called the airlines’ bluff.

Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico have accepted antitrust conditions imposed by US regulators on the carriers’ transborder joint venture (JV), and will move forward to establish the JV.

Threats of a two-day strike by UK airport workers that would have potentially disrupted passengers heading off for Christmas holidays have been eased.