The World Trade Organization (WTO) has upheld a US claim that the European Union (EU) has failed to act on illegal Airbus subsidies, but has rejected other allegations related to the Airbus A380 and A350 programs.
Lufthansa said it has presented the pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) a “comprehensive and substantially improved” offer for the approximately 5,400 pilots employed after union talks failed last week, according to a group-wide collective agreement (KTV).
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association’s (SWAPA) board of directors has decided to present a recent labor contract agreement with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines’ management to the carrier’s 8,400 pilots for a ratification vote.
The global airline industry is set for another strong collective profit this year, but there are indications that its financial improvement could be slowing.
Speed and innovation will be essential to securing the future of a healthy global air transport industry as the world grows more uncertain and more difficult to predict, the new IATA chief said in his first public speech since joining the association.
A JetBlue Airways first officer was temporarily blinded by a laser during a Sept. 19 flight from Boston (BOS) to Washington National (DCA), according to an FAA incident report.
Pilots at UK low-cost carrier (LCC) easyJet have voted in favor of industrial action in a dispute over pilot fatigue, triggering a last-minute offer from the airline.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines’ international expansion could take it to Canada, and an executive for the company did not rule out eventual transatlantic flights.
JetBlue Airways will purchase from Philadelphia-based biofuel provider SG Preston over 33 million gallons of blended jet fuel per year for at least 10 years, the New York-based airline said Sept. 19.
Political compromises made to achieve consensus on a global carbon-offsetting scheme for international aviation will leave a “gaping hole” in the Paris Agreement to limit the impact of greenhouse-gas emissions on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups say.
Airline lobby group Airlines for Europe (A4E) and IATA are again calling on European authorities to take action against what they call unjustified air traffic control (ATC) strikes and to ensure service continuity for air traffic management services.
Turkmenistan Airlines has settled its debt to Russia’s air traffic management, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, said in a statement.
The first batch of low-carbon jet fuel derived from waste industrial gases from steel mills has been produced for use by UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic, with flight trials scheduled to start in 2017.
The US Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “risk-based” security strategy is narrowly applied to screening passengers in airports rather than across all aspects of transportation security and is not factored into the agency’s annual budgeting process, government investigators have concluded.
In preparation for a possible strike action, Hawaiian Airlines pilots opened a strike operations center near Honolulu International Airport Sept. 14, according to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing the airline’s nearly 650 pilots.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed that a large piece of aircraft debris, found just off the coast of Tanzania in June, is from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in 2014 while operating as MH370.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has canceled nearly 100 flights in response to a two-day French national strike, which could include the country’s air traffic controllers.
EASA has issued a conflict zone information bulletin (CZIB), warning that there is an anti-aircraft weaponry risk to airlines flying in Kenyan airspace.
