The wreckage of Air Algerie Flight 5017 (AH5017) has been found in a “disintegrated state” in the Gossi region of northeastern Mali, near the border of Burkina Faso, according to French President Francois Hollande.

US scheduled passenger airlines have reported six consecutive months of year-over-year employment growth, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

A selection of photos from ATW correspondent Kurt Hoffman's visit to join Swiss Aviation Training and Swiss International Air Lines' first officers for touch-and-go-training at Chaterauoux.

A Boeing MD-83, chartered by Air Algerie from Spanish company Swiftair, appears to have crashed in Mali with 110 passengers and six crew members on board.

Unions representing Iberia’s pilots and ground staff have approved a proposal covering up to 1,427 voluntary redundancies, which will be rolled out over the period to December 2017.

FAA has lifted its ban on US airline flights into and out of Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport that was put in place after a rocket strike near the airport Tuesday. The agency has cancelled its Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that was first issued Tuesday and extended by another 25 hours yesterday

Contact has been lost with an Air Algerie Boeing MD-83 with 110 passengers and six crew on board.

Further to my blog on bans (or not) on flying into Tel Aviv while there are rockets firing in the area, here is an excerpt from an article in the Washington Post Wednesday by authors Anne Gearan, Sudarsan Raghavan and William Booth: