With a new round of US government budget battles heating up, the nation’s airports are lobbying lawmakers not to use money targeted for airport improvement projects to fund FAA operations.
African low-cost carrier Fastjet is hoping to start domestic airlines in Nigerian and South African in 2014 following the launch of its international operations, which are slated to begin Friday.
Former Manchester Airports Group (MAG) CEO Geoff Muirhead has resigned from the UK government-appointed Airports Commission, also known as the Davies Commission, in response to pressure from the Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) campaign.
Qatar Airways celebrated the launch of its new route to Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa, by providing school uniforms and books for school-age children participating in the 'Our Father's Kitchen' programme.
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).
Following the agreement between Ryanair and Manchester Airport Group (MAG) to grow passenger traffic through Stansted Airport, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said it will defer making final proposals on future regulation for Stansted from Oct. 3, 2013 to April 1, 2014.
UK air traffic services provider NATS has completed a 10-year, £164 million ($262 million) program to upgrade or replace the 23 main radar stations that make up the UK’s radar network.
The Russian government is considering Ramenskoye Airfield and Yermolino Airport as possible airports for low-cost carriers (LCC) in the Kaluga region, Kommersant newspaper has reported.
Philippine Airlines (PAL) will re-launch services to Europe in November, after a 15-year break when all Philippine carriers were included on the European Commission’s so-called blacklist banning operations in European airspace.
