China’s online travel agency (OTA) Ctrip has invested CNY3 billion ($463 million) in Shanghai-based China Eastern Group, parent of China Eastern Airlines (CEA).

Finland will be the first European Union (EU) country to start using the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) as a tool to complement the safety oversight of Finnish aircraft operators.

Russian’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has issued five “prompt” safety recommendations in its interim report on the crash of Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800 that plunged into the ground after a second missed approach at the Rostov-on-Don airport early on the morning of March 19, killing all 62 aboard.

A lack of relevant data is hindering efforts to determine and address the level of the air traffic management system’s vulnerability to cyberattacks, Eurocontrol DG Frank Brenner said at the IATA Ops Conference in Copenhagen this week.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has appointed CAA International (CAAi), the advisory arm of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), to help strengthen CAAT’s aviation safety oversight in compliance with ICAO.

Pilot leaders at Hawaiian Airlines (HAL) will ask members to give them authority to strike if labor negotiations break down and the federal government authorizes a walkout, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said in a statement released April 19.

The European Cockpit Association (ECA) has criticized the US Department of Transportation (DOT) and European Commission (EC) for the tentative approval of Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) bid to start transatlantic services.

Airbus has partnered with Singapore Airlines (SIA) to launch a new $100 million pilot training facility at Seletar Aerospace Park, Singapore.