Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian Air Shuttle estimated that some 35,000 passengers were affected by a strike among pilots that shut down routes across Scandinavia Wednesday.
The Indonesia Navy has called off the retrieval mission of the wreckage of AirAsia QZ8501 after divers declared there were no more bodies inside the main fuselage, which has not been able to be lifted from the seabed of the Java Sea off Pangkalan Bun in south Borneo.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta told Congress “a lot is at stake” in crafting FAA reauthorization legislation, particularly regarding the implementation of the NextGen air traffic control (ATC) system.
JetBlue Airways pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, (ALPA), have sent official notice to company management requesting to open contract negotiations under the federal Railway Labor Act.
The ability to work anywhere on any device has huge implications for the airline industry, from launching new routes to making the best use of a crew’s time to reacting to a disaster.
The inaugural business aviation regulation working group took place on the 25th of January 2015 at the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) headquarters in Dubai, less than two months after the initiative was announced.
The unmanned aerial systems (UAS) revolution is having an effect on what’s flying and what it can do for people almost as dramatic as that of the introduction of powered manned flight.
Authorities investigating the fatal crash of a TransAsia ATR 72-600 in Taiwan earlier in February have reported several local airlines have contravened local labor operating regulations for both ground and aircrew.
Worldwide combined premium and economy international traffic was up 3.7% year-over-year (YOY) in December, finishing 2014 with three months of consistent growth, according to IATA’s December Premium Traffic Monitor.
One of the new carriers planning to enter the Saudi Arabian domestic market, Saudi Gulf Airlines, will not be flying until the fourth quarter this year—around a year later than planned.
Whether they are being spotted on the approach to a busy airport, dropping on to the White House lawn or crashing while carrying drugs in Tijuana, the issues raised by unmanned aircraft arguably are the most controversial in aviation for decades.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, has canceled air operator’s certificates (AOCs) for regional Air Samara and Moscow-based cargo carrier KAPO Avia.
A taxiing Korean Air Airbus A330 hit a parked Bangkok Airways ATR 72-600 at Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, at the weekend, significantly damaging the parked aircraft’s rudder and trim tabs.
In a first major step to regulate the use of small unmanned aircraft commercially in US airspace, the US Transportation Department announced Feb. 15 a proposed rulemaking.
Lufthansa’s pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) will not rule out further strikes over transition payments for early retirees, a spokesperson told ATW in Frankfurt on Friday after a two-day strike nears an end for its Germanwings low-cost subsidiary.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn—along with several other unnamed companies—is set to file a billion-euro lawsuit seeking damages from 11 air cargo carriers, including Lufthansa and British Airways, for allegedly operating a price-fixing cartel from 1999-2006.
Just weeks after it placed four airliners with two Libyan carriers, Dubai-based lessor Aerovista has pulled them out of the North African nation, citing security concerns.
Ten TransAsia pilots have been grounded after failing basic oral tests on the correct handling procedure for an engine flameout after Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) and the carrier suspended flights to send all active ATR pilots for retraining following the fatal crash of an ATR 72-600 earlier this month.
In 2014, US airlines reported a total of 30 domestic flights with tarmac delays exceeding three hours and nine international flights with tarmac delays exceeding four hours at US airports—the lowest number on record, according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) latest Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has called for a 48-hour pilot strike Thursday and Friday for Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, the latest in a series of ongoing protests over transition payments for early retirees.
Dubai based flight support company, UAS, now has the freedom of direct ramp access and can therefore provide more personalised and customised supervision for its clients.
