Oil may be at $50 a barrel, and staying there for now, but airlines are not ready to abandon ambitions to secure alternative sources of jet fuel.

If forecasts from Boeing and Airbus are to be believed, Asian airlines will be paying out around $2 trillion on new, fuel-efficient aircraft over the next couple of decades. But where the money will be coming from is not so easy to forecast.

TAP Portugal’s Pilots Union SPAC has announced a 10-day strike from May 1 to protest the ongoing privatization process.

The worldwide air freight market saw an impressive but temporary spike in February, as collective cargo volumes jumped 11.7% year-over-year (YOY), up 8.5 points from January, according to IATA’s February Air Freight Market Analysis.

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) decided not to ground Delta Air Lines’ Seattle-Tokyo Haneda service.

As the campaign led by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines sped from secret briefings in Washington DC to the broad media and loud finger-pointing, one thing became clear. The US carriers are eager for a fight against Emirates, Etihad and Qatar and their state owners. So if there’s to be a bruising, then the facts should be established in as far as they are directly relevant to what is or is not fair competition.

The International Association of Machinists (IAM) has withdrawn its petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to unionize the company’s North Charleston, South Carolina facilities.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), formerly known as the UK Competition Commission (UKCC), is standing by its decision ordering Ryanair to sell its 29.8% Aer Lingus stake down to 5%.