Malaysia’s transport minister said there is a “high possibility” that aircraft debris found off the coast of Mozambique is from a Boeing 777, though he urged caution in linking the debris to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The rate of change in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as year-over-year percentage growth or losses. Differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.
Investigators are endeavoring to determine whether a piece of what appears to be aircraft debris washed up on a sandbank off the coast of Mozambique could be from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Asia-Pacific carriers reported carrying 24.5 million passengers in January, up 9.2% year-over-year, as traffic continues to climb across the region, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).
The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has applied sanctions to three small Bangkok-based carriers—Asian Air, City Airways and Business Air—following non-compliance with aviation safety and operating regulations.
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is installing an advanced Airbus A320 family aircraft cockpit simulator at its crew training center in Budapest, which will be operational this summer.
Being profitable is not something airlines should have to apologize for, the chief of IATA said at an aviation conference in New York Feb. 25. Speaking at the Aviation Day conference, IATA CEO and DG Tony Tyler said the airline industry was changing – and becoming more sustainably profitable—because of “a lot of hard work and the confluence of some key factors.”
Boeing said it will collaborate with Aeromexico and Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA) on a biojet program supported by Mexico’s Sector Fund for Energy Sustainability (SENER-CONACYT) to advance research and development of sustainable aviation biofuel in Mexico.
Montreal-based leisure carrier Air Transat and its pilots have reached a tentative agreement on renewal of the collective agreement that expired last April.
The European Union and China have launched a €10 million ($11 million) aviation cooperation project, which will be managed by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and partners, to link technical cooperation with policy dialogue between the European and Chinese aviation authorities.
All 23 passengers and crew died when a Twin Otter turboprop of Nepalese carrier Tara Air crashed in the mountainous Himalayan nation shortly after 1000 local time Feb. 24.
Russian airlines carried 16,770 passengers in January through the commuter subsidy program, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
The US government has granted permission to Boeing to talk to Iranian airlines, as the Southwest Asian nation emerges from sanctions imposed as part of international opposition to its attempts to develop its nuclear technology.
ICAO said its 36-State Governing Council has adopted a new aviation safety measure prohibiting, on an interim basis, all shipments of lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft.
Travel Capitalist Ventures (TCV) is withdrawing its investment partnership in IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) innovation fund, it was announced Monday.
Southwest Airlines announced that its ramp, operations, provisioning, and cargo agents have narrowly approved the tentative agreement that was reached with union negotiators in late December.
Canada-based simulator manufacturer and trainings provider CAE is acquiring the commercial flight training unit of Lockheed Martin, it was announced Monday.
A strike on some of SAS’s Nordic services has been threatened from Feb. 22, following a breakdown of negotiations between pilots, cabin crew and the company that hires them.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) aviation regulator, General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has instructed all “leisure” users of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to operate them only within GCAA-registered and authorized clubs.
