Kazakhstan authorities have postponed a mandatory requirement for domestic carriers to gain IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification by Jan. 1, 2016, for local carriers operating domestic flights.
A West Atlantic Bombardier CRJ200 converted freighter crashed in Sweden near the Norwegian border after disappearing from radar during a mail transport flight.
Bahrain has followed Saudi Arabia in halting all air services with Iran. The move follows the execution of a Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr in Saudia Arabia.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian UK has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for exemption authority and a foreign air carrier permit (FACP) to allow services between Europe and the US, several media outlets have reported.
Turkish news agency Anadolu has reported that mortar rounds fired near Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport on Dec. 23 led to the explosion that killed one cleaning staff member and injured another on board a Pegasus Airlines aircraft.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta said the mandatory registration process for recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has proceeded smoothly, with 181,000 registrations completed so far.
FAA has released a mobile app, B4UFLY, which alerts unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators about current or upcoming requirements and restrictions in areas of the National Airspace System where they may want to operate their devices.
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has reported the region’s airlines carried 22.5 million passengers in November, up 6.7% over the year-ago month.
Members of the Association of European Airlines (AEA)—22 carriers from throughout Europe—transported close to 307 million passengers on scheduled services in 2015.
202 firearms were discovered at US airports in December 2015, down 4.3% year-over-year, as detailed in Total TSA Gun Catches for December 2015 (loaded or unloaded firearms discovered at TSA checkpoints at airports across the US).
Malaysia Airlines will resume normal baggage carrying on its flights to its European destinations of London, Paris and Amsterdam from its Kuala Lumpur base, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) said in a Jan. 6 statement.
The Lufthansa Group will hire more than 4,000 workers in 2016, which includes nearly 2,800 flight attendants, 240 pilots and 150 service staff at Munich Airport.
Saudi Arabia announced Jan. 5 it is ceasing all air services with Iran due to increasing tension between Riyadh and Tehran following Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shia Moslem cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Ryanair is seeking to have the Norwegian government roll back plans for an environmental tax for flights originating in Norway, saying such a move would harm jobs and growth in the Nordic nation.
Air France has confirmed it has been informed of strike action by the CGT trade union on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 and by Alter, a minor pilots’ union, from Jan. 10-13.
An Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER diverted to Calgary Dec. 30 to get passengers to hospital after several were injured during severe turbulence on a flight from Shanghai to Toronto.
Southwest Airlines reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its ground operations workers Dec. 29; a vote on the new contract is imminent.
A German court has ruled that Etihad Airways must cease its codeshare on 29 routes operated by partner airline airberlin, Germany’s second-largest carrier.
