Norwegian Air International (NAI) has been granted approval to begin flights between Ireland and the US after a three-year process in which the US Department of Transportation (DOT) seemed reluctant to give the go-ahead despite being unable to find any legal reason to reject the application.

Lufthansa Group low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Eurowings and German public services trade union Verdi have reached a labor agreement for cabin crews Dec. 2.

Iranian and Russian authorities have updated the bilateral agreement between their countries, fixing the maximum scheduled flights operated by each side at 28 per week.

Fears that nations will build barriers to protect their national carriers were expressed during the annual meeting of the organization representing Middle East airlines.

Delta Air Lines’ pilots approved a new labor contract Dec. 1, according to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).

US President-elect’s nomination of Elaine Chao to be Department of Transportation Secretary seems to have broad support and will likely be an uncontentious nominee with the Senate.

Global air transport IT specialist SITA’s connected aircraft business SITAONAIR will partner with satellite provider Aireon and flight tracking data specialist FlightAware beginning in 2018, the companies announced Nov. 29.

Lufthansa has made the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots’ union a new offer in an effort to resolve the ongoing industrial dispute that is costing the German carrier €15 million ($16 million) per day.