The US Congress on Oct. 3 passed a bill to reauthorize the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) through 2021, marking the first reauthorization in the agency’s 17-year-history.

Etihad Airways has collaborated with the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, to introduce ‘Weqaya,’ a range of healthy food items, on-board its flights and in its lounges in Abu Dhabi.

The US Senate on Oct. 3 passed the bi-partisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 by a 93-6 vote, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by US President Donald Trump.

UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has flown a Boeing 747 from Orlando, Florida, to London Gatwick on a blend of waste-gas biofuel produced by New Zealand-based LanzaTech, using an alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) process.

The FAA has proposed a $474,000 civil penalty against Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines, alleging the company operated hundreds of flights without required medical supplies.

Forty-eight new airports have joined the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, taking the total number of airports worldwide engaged in climate action to 246, Airports Council International (ACI) told the Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva Oct. 2.

Vienna-based Lufthansa LCC subsidiary Eurowings Europe and trade union Vida have agreed on a contract for cockpit and cabin crews, retroactive to March 1.

Air France’s head of human resources Gilles Gateau is leaving the company on Oct. 12, marking the second executive departure in less than a week for the airline, which has been locked in a turbulent pay dispute with its workforce for months.