International Airlines Group (IAG) is expecting its full-year operating profit to be down on 2018, after taking a £170 million ($186.6 million) hit from industrial unrest among its pilots and Heathrow Airport workers.

Airlines want airports to understand their business models and demonstrate how to help them control costs, executives from airlines in three different countries told airport delegates.

Delegations from four countries, including the US, submitted a working paper to ICAO outlining recommendations to address the consequences of pilot dependence on cockpit automation.

Hong Kong Airlines opened a new training academy for flight and cabin crews Sept. 25.

The US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has substantiated a whistleblower complaint alleging that FAA safety inspectors who served on the Boeing 737 MAX Flight Standardization Board (FSB) were not properly credentialed, contradicting earlier claims made by senior FAA officials.