Russia’s Aeroflot and Transaero Airlines are selling nonrefundable tickets, Russia news agency ITAR-TASS has reported.

Economy passenger travel surged 8% year-over-year in April—the biggest leap in economy traffic since March 2012, when economy traffic grew 8.9%, according to IATA’s April Premium Traffic Monitor.

A passenger on board a Pakistan International Airlines’ Airbus A310 was killed and others were wounded when the aircraft was hit by gunfire as it landed at Peshawar Airport in the early hours of Wednesday.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214’s pilots didn’t have a full understanding of the aircraft’s automated systems and “mismanaged” the approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO), the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded.

A six-day strike by one of France’s largest air traffic controllers’ unions, the UNSA-ICNA, is set to cause major disruption to flights throughout Europe.

Finnair will outsource its cabin crew on approximately 20 long- and short-haul routes over the next two years, leading to job cuts, after union talks failed to hit its €18 million ($24 million) cost-cutting target.

Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee has granted CAT IIIa ICAO certification to the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to execute automatic landings.

Technology specialist SITA is creating a registry of beacons that could be used by mobile phone apps to help passengers navigate through airports.