Unconfirmed reports from officials at the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) investigating last year’s Indonesia AirAsia QZ8501 fatal crash have suggested the captain was not in his seat at the time of the incident.

Transport Canada Aviation Security has approved Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) for a Canadian foreign air operator’s certificate (FAOC), which permits scheduled passenger services from Ukraine to Canada.

American Airlines (AA) pilots have ratified a new, five-year collective bargaining agreement that brings all of the flight deck crew of the former American and US Airways under one labor contract.

The UK airline industry is uniting behind the British Air Transport Association (BATA) to call for air passenger duty (APD) to be abolished across the UK during the next Parliament.

Luxembourg-based Cargolux management continues to be stuck in difficult negotiations with Luxembourg labor unions after rejecting a collective work agreement (CWA) that expired at the end of December.

The government of Malaysia, citing Chicago Convention standards, has “officially” declared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 “an accident,” stating that “all 239 of the passengers and crew onboard MH370 are presumed to have lost their lives.”

German public services trade union Verdi called on security personnel to strike at Cologne and Düsseldorf airports on Thursday.

Russia’s airlines carried more than 530,000 passengers and operated 12,000 flights within the framework of routes subsidy programs in 2014.