US scheduled passenger airlines posted a full-time-equivalent (FTE) employee count of 384,478 personnel in August, up just 1% year-over-year, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

Delta Air Lines pilot Tim Canoll has been elected as the new president of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing more than 51,000 pilots at 30 airlines in the US and Canada.

The Airbus A350 XWB and A330 have been approved for common type rating for pilots training to fly the aircraft.

Global international passenger traffic rebounded across-the-board in August, as overall traffic grew 4.5% year-over-year after two months of weak growth in the 2-3% range, according to IATA’s August Premium Traffic Monitor.

Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) have opened a demonstration facility—called the China-US Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project—that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel.

International air freight volumes are expected to grow at a five-year 4.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to IATA’s Airline Industry Forecast for 2014-2018.

The European Commission (EC) is seeking input into whether SkyTeam members Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and Alitalia have unfair dominance on their transatlantic New York services.

Association of European Airlines (AEA) CEO Athar Husain Khan has pushed back against the suggestion that European airlines are protectionist, redirecting the focus onto other, less liberalized markets.