Aviation biofuels is a sector moving at two speeds: quickly on the technical side of developing and approving new fuels, but slowly on the commercial side of scaling up production and reducing cost.

Denver-based Frontier Airlines has become the latest US airline to embrace the “ultra” low cost-carrier (ULCC) model, joining fast-growing Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air.

The opening of Doha’s new Hamad International Airport is cause for celebration.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is studying whether missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been navigating between waypoints in the southern Indian Ocean when the aircraft’s satellite communications system last exchanged “handshakes” with an Inmarsat satellite and ground station in Perth, Australia, as it descended, most likely after running out of fuel.

Transport Canada has cleared the use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) by airline passengers “during all phases of flight.”

Finnair will decide in June whether to go ahead with layoffs and outsourcing, after talks to avoid staff cuts ended without a solution.

Three leading flight attendants’ unions have joined forces to lobby the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to deny Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit.

Thailand airports are calling for tighter security and more stringent identity checks following the Thai Army’s takeover of the country Thursday.