There are three points in the overall airline experience where passengers report a very high level of satisfaction: booking flights,

A Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus A330-300, en route from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power in both its Rolls-Royce engines and descended 13,000 feet before the aircrew managed to regain powered flight.

L-3 Communications has acquired UK- headquartered crew specialist CTC Aviation Group, which will now be known as L-3 CTC, for £143 million ($220 million).

SAS Scandinavian Airlines has agreed a new one-year collective bargaining agreement with Norwegian pilots’ union NSF, back-dated to April 1, ending seven days of strike action.

Ancillary revenues have grown exponentially, although the numbers are hard to pin down because of the varying definitions.

Airlink was started in 2010 by a group of aviation professionals connected to the ISTAT Foundation.

Every five years, a new European Commission and Parliament are elected. That five year rotation happened last year, meaning the new European leadership team for 2014-19 is preparing for action and that has important implications for Europe’s air transport industry.

​Tragic and shocking as was the loss of Germanwings flight 4U9525, there are fundamentals about the global air transportation industry that have directly resulted in its stellar safety record and which must be upheld.