A Lion Air Boeing 737-8 has crashed into the sea soon after takeoff from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, with no reports of survivors, marking the first loss of a Boeing 737-MAX family aircraft.
BREAKING NEWS: Early news reports say a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. Reports came in around 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29 local time; 10p.m. Sunday Oct. 28 US eastern time. There are no more details and the Indonesian LCC has not confirmed the crash. This story will be updated.
Ireland-based LCC Ryanair has signed a collective labor agreement (CLA) with Belgian unions CNE-CSC and LBC-NVK, putting in place another piece in its patchwork of new labor agreements with staff across Europe.
International Airlines Group has revealed that the data breach of its British Airways (BA) customer database in September 2018 affected more customers than previously believed.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has recommended FAA should evaluate whether Boeing needs to assess the risk of an uncommanded 777 engine failure, triggered by nose-gear tire debris, could lead to a dual-engine shutdown.
IATA sees great risk of disruption to air travel in most of the scenarios conceivable for Brexit less than six months ahead of the March 29, 2019 UK exit from the European Union (EU).
Ryanair has signed a recognition agreement with the Spanish pilot union SEPLA to cover all its directly employed pilots in Spain, the Irish LCC said Oct. 24.
The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) has urged the UK government to bring forward its program of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, education and registration following a near-miss over London it said could have had disastrous consequences.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 was forced to abort takeoff at Shanghai Pudong Airport after two tires burst as the aircraft was accelerating from runway 35R around 1:30 a.m. local time Oct. 21.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will probe Irish regional airline CityJet’s plans to place aircraft on long-term wet-lease with International Airlines Group (IAG) Irish carrier Aer Lingus.
The FAA has modified areas in Eastern Ukraine that are off-limits to US airlines and their foreign codeshare partners, citing a stabilization in security conditions in the region.
While political tension has been affecting Korean Air’s traffic in some markets, the airline could eventually see benefits from improving international relations, Korean Air president Walter Cho says.
Irish LCC Ryanair has signed an agreement with the Portuguese pilot union SPAC covering seniority and base transfer agreements for its directly employed pilots in Portugal, and paving the way for negotiations on a full collective labor agreement to begin before the end of October.
Air France has reached a pay deal with unions, paving the way for the Air France-KLM group to move on from a months-long labor conflict and focus on its long-term strategy.
Air France is nearing a deal with its workforce in a months-long pay dispute following negotiations between the new Air France-KLM Group CEO Benjamin Smith and the French airline’s unions.
US Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is a member of the Aviation Subcommittee of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and a leading critic of the US airline industry. In this exclusive interview, ATW asked him about his attempts to re-regulate the industry, and how he plans to move forward following the passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) wants to stay within the EASA system after the UK exits the European Union (Brexit) next year, but given that the UK government has not determined how it will exit, the CAA is preparing for a hard Brexit, a scenario where no mutually beneficial deal is reached.
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has elected Joe DePete, a FedEx Express pilot and the union’s first VP and national safety coordinator, to serve as its 11th president.
Singapore has signed an Open Skies agreement with Peru, allowing their airlines to fly any number of passenger and cargo services between both countries as well as beyond to any third country, with no restrictions on capacity, frequency, aircraft type or routing.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released an eight-year plan to incorporate biometric technology, including facial recognition and fingerprints at airports across the country.
