The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) president denounced the US Supreme Court’s decision barring public-employee contracts that require workers to pay union dues.
The air transport industry’s global emissions scheme progressed one step further this week when a set of standards was agreed at an ICAO Council meeting in Montreal.
An Australian court is deciding penalties for the last two airlines involved in a long-running cargo price-fixing case, including an A$15 million ($11 million) penalty for Air New Zealand.
New York-based JetBlue Airways will launch Saturday Boston-Havana flights and add a second daily Fort Lauderdale, Florida-Havana service in November, as the carrier ramps up its commitment to the US-Cuba market.
The US Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 vote on June 26, upheld US President Donald Trump’s directive temporarily banning nationals from seven countries from travelling to the US.
Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar Silva reiterated his complaints about Canadian government funding for the Bombardier CSeries, as both manufacturers head towards what could be a crucial Farnborough Air Show.
Cargo operator Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings increased its full-year profit outlook 5% and is projecting a 35-40% increase over 2017's adjusted net profit of $133.7 million on revenues of $2.6 billion.
Plans to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport are facing a legal challenge after a UK parliamentary vote paved the way for Europe’s busiest airport to expand significantly.
US Congress has opted to leave the federal cap on passenger facility charges (PFC) unchanged at $4.50 in the upcoming FAA reauthorization bill, but language in the bill would alter the program in other ways, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration has revived a call to spin off air traffic control services from the US Department of Transportation as part of a larger proposal to radically overhaul the federal government.
A joint plan by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Florida’s Orlando International Airport (MCO) to accelerate deployment of biometric facial recognition scans on every passenger arriving or departing on international flights at the airport is reviving privacy concerns.
A government-industry advisory panel has been established in Thailand to provide greater collaboration amongst stakeholders regarding the country’s airport development program.
American Airlines and New York-based JetBlue Airways are gearing up to implement new restrictions on passengers traveling with service animals on July 1, but the separate guidelines may soon become moot once the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issues its own rules later this summer.
UK LCC easyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle both see more potential from connecting services following the success of the “Worldwide by easyJet” service the LCC launched with its Norwegian low-cost, long-haul counterpart and other partners in September 2017.
Airbus said it will need to reconsider its footprint, investments and dependency on the UK in the event of a hard Brexit, when the UK leaves the European Union (EU).
An “information report” by a French senator is blaming the country’s air traffic control (ATC) for disproportionate flight delays in Europe, citing obsolete equipment, inadequate human resource management and frequent strikes.
A fatigue crack in a turbine disk web and subsequent uncontained engine failure led to the Sept. 8, 2015 engine fire on a British Airways (BA) Boeing 777-236ER on takeoff from Las Vegas, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said June 20.
The US Transportation Department Office of the Inspector General said June 20 it would review FAA’s safety oversight of Southwest Airlines following recent events that include an in-flight engine failure in April that caused the death of a passenger.
FAA acting administrator Dan Elwell has called on the UK and world governments to accelerate the pace of bilateral aviation negotiations ahead of Brexit, when the UK leaves the European Union (EU), in March 2019.
