The rate of change in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as year-over-year percentage growth or losses. Differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.

Frontier Airlines, the Denver-based ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC), has promoted president Barry Biffle to CEO and appointed him to the airline’s board of directors.

Global air transport IT specialist SITA and Lufthansa have jointly developed bag-tracing technology called WorldTracer, which they say will “speed up the repatriation of delayed or mishandled bags to passengers.”

Air New Zealand is proposing tighter carbon offset requirements under the country’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), a move spurred by the carrier’s extensive sustainability initiative.

UK finance minister George Osborne has signaled a further rise in air passenger duty (APD) in his annual budget speech.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has approved the FAA reauthorization bill proposed last week by Sens. John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Bill Nelson (D-Florida), moving it a step closer to consideration by the full Senate.

Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has reported that airlines in member states had 56 accidents, including 27 crashes, which killed 116 people in 2015, according to IAC’s Safety Performance Report.

The Indian government has confirmed it will spend more than $12 billion on aviation as part of its 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), which finalizes at the end of 2017.