A Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus A330-300, en route from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power in both its Rolls-Royce engines and descended 13,000 feet before the aircrew managed to regain powered flight.
L-3 Communications has acquired UK- headquartered crew specialist CTC Aviation Group, which will now be known as L-3 CTC, for £143 million ($220 million).
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has agreed a new one-year collective bargaining agreement with Norwegian pilots’ union NSF, back-dated to April 1, ending seven days of strike action.
Every five years, a new European Commission and Parliament are elected. That five year rotation happened last year, meaning the new European leadership team for 2014-19 is preparing for action and that has important implications for Europe’s air transport industry.
Tragic and shocking as was the loss of Germanwings flight 4U9525, there are fundamentals about the global air transportation industry that have directly resulted in its stellar safety record and which must be upheld.
Mozambique's regulatory authority Mozambique Civil Aviation Authority (MCAA) has given the go-ahead for three new airlines to apply for AOCs and all three are getting ready for operations
Russia’s Ural Airlines has become a member of IATA, which will allow the carrier “to optimize costs of international audit which the airline is required to pass, to get the information on the airline business new technologies and implement them,” the carrier said in a statement.
International passenger traffic in the Asia-Pacific region has increased 10% to 23 million in April, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana has opened a training center for engineers in Almaty, with certification in European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Part 147 standards by Kazakh and European aviation authorities.
Lufthansa is considering setting up a task force to evaluate implementing random medical checks of pilots to improve safety in the cockpit, Lufthansa spokesperson Barbara Schaedler told ATW in an email.
The coalition of US airlines and labor groups that is campaigning against the three major Gulf carriers has claimed broad support from US lawmakers, local chambers of commerce and local unions.
The Gulf carriers have not put excess capacity into the market, according to a report commissioned by Etihad Airways, the second white paper it has published in the ongoing dispute between the major US and Gulf carriers.
British Airways (BA) is trialing new landing procedures at London Heathrow Airport as it seeks to minimize noise disturbance to residents on the glide path.
UK-based environmental lobby groups Transport & Environment and Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) are calling on EU states to take action to ensure all airlines operating within the European Economic Area (EEA) comply with the region’s emissions trading system (ETS).
The Australian government will spend AUD26 million ($20.5 million) on upgrades to Townsville and Sunshine Coast airports as part of its ongoing plan to attract increased international passenger arrivals.
Lufthansa Group’s passenger airlines operated more efficiently in 2014, using an average of 3.84 liters of kerosene in 2014, to carry a passenger 100 km, a 1.6% improvement over the previous year (2013: 3.91 l/100pkm).
Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MLIT) is urging all Korean aircraft operators to replace or mothball all aircraft that are more than two decades old.
Philippine authorities will subsidize landing and take-off charges at Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) to help stimulate international and regional traffic and ease Manila’s chronically congested Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Airlines across the Asia Pacific region saw a significant drop in 2014 operating profits despite a slight increase in revenue, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).
