Asia-Pacific carriers reported carrying 24.5 million passengers in January, up 9.2% year-over-year, as traffic continues to climb across the region, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has applied sanctions to three small Bangkok-based carriers—Asian Air, City Airways and Business Air—following non-compliance with aviation safety and operating regulations.

An on-off strike involving crew operating services on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in Sweden and Finland has been resolved.

Lobbying group Airlines for Europe (A4E) has announced that two more carriers are to swell its ranks, with further operators due to join shortly.

Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is installing an advanced Airbus A320 family aircraft cockpit simulator at its crew training center in Budapest, which will be operational this summer.

Being profitable is not something airlines should have to apologize for, the chief of IATA said at an aviation conference in New York Feb. 25. Speaking at the Aviation Day conference, IATA CEO and DG Tony Tyler said the airline industry was changing – and becoming more sustainably profitable—because of “a lot of hard work and the confluence of some key factors.”

Boeing said it will collaborate with Aeromexico and Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA) on a biojet program supported by Mexico’s Sector Fund for Energy Sustainability (SENER-CONACYT) to advance research and development of sustainable aviation biofuel in Mexico.

Montreal-based leisure carrier Air Transat and its pilots have reached a tentative agreement on renewal of the collective agreement that expired last April.