A U.S. Transportation Department rulemaking committee has agreed on measures to improve the accessibility of lavatories and inflight entertainment for persons with disabilities.
UK-based satellite operator Inmarsat and the European Space Agency have completed a first series of test flights for Iris Precursor, a project aimed at improving air traffic management over European airspace through satellite-based datalink communications.
The U.S. Transportation Department is allowing American Airlines and Qantas to withdraw their application for an expanded partnership without vacating the ruling.
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Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines will end their codeshare and marketing agreement after April 30, the airlines announced following the latter carrier’s acquisition of Virgin America.
The FAA plans to study the blood of more than 160 volunteers in a new trial to better understand the relationship between reduced or “mistimed” sleep and changes in gene expression, a process linked to the production of proteins by cells.
Bombardier is on track to exceed revenues of $25 billion in 2020, including $3 billion each from deliveries of new C Series aircraft and Global 7000 business jets, the company’s leadership has told analysts.
Embraer’s home government Brazil is ramping up for another WTO fight against Canada’s Bombardier, with Brazil’s highest government institution for foreign trade policies calling for a new, formal trade dispute between the countries of the aircraft OEMs.
Lufthansa has begun to look at ways that it could integrate the remaining parts of its struggling competitor Air Berlin after the two sides signed a far-reaching wet-lease agreement last week.
British air travelers are facing a Christmas of discontent, after Virgin Atlantic pilots and Swissport baggage handlers joined British cabin crew threats to strike during the holiday season.
The crew of a Shenzhen Airlines aircraft, mishearing a controller’s instruction, entered a runway Dec. 14 at Nanchang Changbei International Airport as a Hainan Airlines flight was approaching to land.
TransAsia Airways is likely to be smaller than it was at the time of its Nov. 22 failure, if a revival attempt by fellow Taiwanese carrier Far Eastern Air Transport succeeds.
Australia’s competition watchdog has tentatively rejected a proposal by Virgin Australia and Alliance Aviation Services to form a partnership covering charter operations.
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America pilots are working with management on a process that could set the stage for a new collective bargaining agreement, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) union said Dec. 16. Specifically, each pilot union’s master executive council voted in favor of adopting a so-called “Transition and Process Agreement,” or TPA. This will “define the process” for negotiating a new contract, ALPA said.
Lufthansa will enter into a codeshare agreement with Etihad Airways, as the latter carrier’s affiliate Air Berlin starts wet-leasing services on its behalf from February 2017.
