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A string of voice communication blunders caused safety systems on the ground and in the air to activate automatically and successfully resolve a close encounter between an Air Portugal Airbus A319 and Ryanair Boeing 737-800 at 37,000 ft. over Zurich. While the Swiss Accident Investigation Board (SAIB) in its final report on the April 2013 incident does not make any recommendations, both Ryanair and Swiss air navigation services company Skyguide did make voluntary changes to prevent similar events from occurring.

Belgian regional carrier VLM Airlines, which is in the middle of a management buyout, is to launch the Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100LR in Europe, after

Low-cost carrier (LCC) Jetstar has reached an agreement with its Australia-based pilots, representing a major step in parent Qantas Group’s efforts to

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The Southwest Airlines captain who took control of a Boeing 737 from the first officer seconds before touchdown and landed nose wheel-first on Runway

Air France-KLM is moving to reduce financial damage from a two-week pilots strike by cutting costs and capital expenditures, but airline executives

Grupo Aeroméxico reported a MXP201 million ($14.8 million) net profit for this year’s third quarter, bouncing back a bit from its second-quarter net

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The coming days will see an acceleration to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), as a third vessel will transition from survey work to scouring the vast section of seafloor already mapped and surveyed, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.

ExpressJet will not erase its multi-year losses and will not turn an overall profit for parent Skywest Airlines for at least two or three years, airline executives told analysts on Wednesday.

American Airlines is laying out a case for how it thinks the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) should seize Seattle-Haneda flights from Delta Air

Ryanair will open a base in Copenhagen (CPH) next year, and though the move is heralded by the airport’s operator, it could be bad news for resident

Vietnamese low-cost carrier (LCC) Vietjet Air is looking to introduce a raft of codeshares with “major airlines” next year, Managing Director Luu Duc

CORRECTION: The Oct. 28 article entitled “IATA: Government Assets Needed For Conflict Areas Intelligence” was not clear on IATA’s and ICAO’s roles in

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Air France-KLM has rejected reports that Dutch unit KLM is planning to cut some 7,500 jobs, or 25% of its workforce, but the strongly worded denial

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a set of tools that airlines, airports and air traffic management organizations can

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has awarded $10.2 million to airports for low-emissions projects as part of its Voluntary Airport Low

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/10/avd_10_29_2014_dataw2.pdf Data Watch: U.S Airline Employment, Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Month 2010-2014 2013 2014 2013-2014 May 49,424 50,633 2.4 June 49,415 50,336 1.9 July 49,387 51,107 3.5 12-Month Average 49,795 Jan-Jul Average 49,804 50,587 1.6 Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

American Airlines is not moving to a revenue-based frequent-flier program when it merges its AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles systems in the

United Airlines launched its Los Angeles to Melbourne route this week, believing local traffic in both cities can buoy the new service, Dave Hilfman

Spirit Airlines posted a third-quarter net income of $67 million, up 9.7% over its $61.1 million net profit in the prior-year period, and is confident

Qantas has deployed an interim solution to problems with water leaks on its A380 fleet while Airbus develops a permanent fix, an ATSB incident report reveals.

Advancing its strategy to establish presence at all five of Belgium’s passenger airports, Jetairfly next year will begin scheduled services to six

The Philippines-Japan market is becoming increasingly competitive, with the two major Philippine carriers both launching new routes to Japan from the