With the US still stalling on awarding final approval for a foreign air permit to low-cost carrier Norwegian Air International (NAI), the CEOs of several top hotel chains and travel organizations have written directly to President Barack Obama urging immediate action.
European airlines are being encouraged to sign up for new systems of resolving passenger disputes that avoid the current final sanction of taking the matter to law.
A United Airlines Boeing 767-300, en route from Houston, Texas to London Heathrow, was diverted to Ireland’s Shannon Airport early on Aug. 31 after hitting turbulence, injuring passengers and crew.
Vienna International Airport flight operations have returned to normal following a glitch in data transmissions problems that caused cancellations and delays on Sunday, Aug. 28.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), the union representing the carrier’s 8,400 pilots, have reached an “agreement in principle” on a new contract, according to SWAPA.
FAA approved 76 waivers to the new regulations for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating commercially on just the first morning the agency’s small UAV rule, or Part 107, was in effect.
Mitsubishi’s first MRJ90, which was positioning to the US for flight testing, has been forced to return to Tokyo because of an air management system fault.
Turbine blade erosion is causing engine failures on some of its Boeing 787s and Rolls-Royce is developing a new blade, Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) has told ATW.
Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) has cancelled and delayed some flights to perform engine checks on its Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787s, following an engine incident,.
Lufthansa and the German Independent Flight Attendants’ Organization (UFO) have reached an agreement on a new collective labor agreement (CLA) for Lufthansa cabin crewmembers.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 parked at an airport gate was rammed by a pickup truck at Omaha (Nebraska) Eppley Airfield as passengers were boarding.
The interaction between passengers and self-service technology has reached a point of maturity where it is no longer about introducing interactive technology.
Cyprus’ civil-aviation regulator has conducted an audit of startup carrier Cobalt, following two incidents involving technical faults in the first few weeks of the airline’s operational life.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its report into a smoke incident on a Qantas Airways Airbus A380 that was caused by a mobile phone lithium battery that became caught in and crushed by the aircraft seat mechanism.
All 300 people onboard the Emirates Boeing 777 escaped with their lives when the aircraft crash-landed at Dubai Airport and burst into flames [see article, page 7]. Sadly a firefighter was killed tackling the blaze, but the scale of the tragedy could have been so much larger.
