Alaska Airlines has reached an agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants on a tentative labor agreement on a new five-year contract for the carrier’s 3,300 flight attendants.

US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx reasserted the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) regulatory role regarding inflight cell phone calls just as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially started consideration of a proposal to allow cellular voice calls aboard US commercial flights.

Over the next week, UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) plans to issue guidance to airlines detailing how to apply for gate-to-gate use of personal electronic devices (PEDs).

International air freight volumes are expected to grow 17% during 2013-2017, expanding at a five-year 3.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to IATA’s Airline Industry Forecast for 2013-17.

IATA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airports Council International (ACI) to develop Smart Security (SmartS), which replaces Checkpoint of the Future.

The pilot at the controls of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed in July at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has admitted to investigators he was “very concerned” about his ability to perform a visual approach landing on SFO’s runway 28L.

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair may have to repay millions of euros in state aid from Frankfurt Hahn operator Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn (FFH) GmbH.

Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, Industrial Investors and Boeing will launch a new aviation training center in Russia in 2015.