The Air India Boeing 787, which developed windshield cracks while landing at Melbourne on Monday, will to return Delhi Tuesday night after being repaired, airline officials said.

News from Travel Technology Update: For all the drama surrounding IATA’s New Distribution Capability, it is only a technical standard that provides “just the basis for developers to do the hard work,” Gary Doernhoefer, a consultant and former general counsel to IATA, said.

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The massive growth of Arab carriers are creating an emerging problem in the region’s air traffic management (ATM), Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) secretary general Abdul Teffaha told ATW in Abu Dhabi.

[UPDATED] A gunman fired multiple shots from an assault rifle Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), causing a number of injuries and killing a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer.

A ground stop has been put in place at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) after gun shots were apparently fired in an airport terminal.

The airline industry faces challenges from rising fuel costs and pending regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels can help the industry meet both challenges, by offering fuel at a stable price with reduced carbon emissions measured over the fuel’s production lifecycle. While there are many US federal initiatives supporting research and development of advanced biofuels, no program has been as successful as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

The US airline industry was nearing the completion of a major transformation that would allow it to become more attractive to the investment community and more stable for its employees and other stakeholders. That plan, however, may be in jeopardy now that the US Dept. of Justice has brought a suit, to be heard in court Nov. 25, to block the merger between American Airlines and US Airways.