Las Vegas-based low-cost carrier Allegiant Air expects to need at least another week before its flight schedule is disruption-free and its entire MD-80 fleet is available as it works to get the model’s evacuation slides in compliance with manufacturer recommendations.

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways plan to operate a “harmonized schedule between New York JFK and London Heathrow” starting March 30, 2014, after receiving final antitrust clearance from the US government to launch a transatlantic joint venture (JV).

IATA has revised its industry profit outlook for 2013 to $11.7 billion, a full billion dollar downgrade from IATA’s June forecast.

Under the auspices of its International Aviation Safety Assessments (IASA) program, FAA has upgraded Ukraine’s safety rating to Category 1 from Category 2.

FAA administrator Michael Huerta warned that the ongoing “fiscal uncertainty” surrounding the US government is “very damaging” to FAA’s long-term planning capability, and in particular could hurt the agency’s effort to modernize air traffic control (ATC).

Las Vegas-based low-cost carrier Allegiant Air announced today it will immediately pull nearly half its fleet out of service to re-inspect the emergency slides on its MD-80 aircraft.

The US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways is based on faulty reasoning, the head of IATA told the Wings Club in New York Thursday.

A five-month-old baby boy has died at Spain’s Alicante-Elche Airport on the Costa Blanca after being trapped in a luggage carousel.