Egypt and Greece have deployed aircraft and naval vessels to search for missing EgyptAir flight MS804.

An Egyptair Airbus A320 has disappeared early on May 19, near the end of a scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo.

Airlines for America (A4A) has called on the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to publicly release data on security screening checkpoint wait times at airports, and rejected the notion that airlines’ checked bag fees are to blame for extremely long security lines.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust division has requested Alaska Airlines and Virgin America to provide additional information regarding their merger proposal.

Qatar Airways said it has raised its ownership stake in International Airlines Group (IAG) to 15.01%.

IT & Distribution-May 17, 2016

Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines’ pilots union is seeking court protection to prevent the airline from operating Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft without a contract provision for the type, a suit the airline calls “premature.”

Lithuanian leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines launched operations under its new German air operator’s certificate (AOC) on May 13.