Russian authorities are focusing their investigation into the fatal Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737-500 crash in Kazan on five possible causes.

A Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 has crashed on landing at Kazan airport. It is believed that all passengers and crew onboard were killed.

Finnair continued to face a strike threat Friday despite an 11th-hour agreement with the Finnish Flight Attendants Association (SLSY) and the Finnish Aviation Union (IAU), which was supposed to cancel industrial action scheduled to begin Friday.

Finnair has reached an 11th-hour agreement with the Finnish Flight Attendants Association (SLSY) and the Finnish Aviation Union (IAU), which cancels industrial action scheduled to begin today.

Asia-Pacific airlines are being held back on global aviation policy making because they do not have the advantage of speaking with a single voice the way European Union countries and the US do, airline CEOs were told Friday.

A “patchwork quilt” of passenger rights regulations enacted by governments worldwide are adding “cost and complexity” to airline operations and getting “in the way” of good customer service, IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said.

Boeing and Brazil’s GOL will team up to research, develop and approve new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil.

Boeing union workers in Washington state have voted to reject a proposed labor contract extension, casting doubt on whether the 777X will be built at Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ facilities in the Seattle area.