Australian flag carrier Qantas has cleared another major hurdle in its efforts to impose a group-wide 18-month wage freeze, reaching a tentative contract deal with its Jetstar domestic pilots.
Gulf Air has resumed flights to Baghdad International Airport following a temporary suspension over safety concerns after a Flydubai aircraft on a commercial flight was hit with bullets on landing.
TransAsia Airways has canceled 90 scheduled flights and is sending all its active ATR pilots for retraining under the scrutiny of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), following the fatal crash of an ATR 72-600 last week.
German public services trade union Verdi has called for a one-day strike Monday of security personnel at Hanover, Hamburg and Stuttgart airports, causing canceled flights and delays for several thousand passengers.
In the Jan.21 ATW editor’s blog urging US airlines to “stop whining” about unfair competition from the three Gulf carriers – Emirates, Qatar and Etihad – the editor suggests that a vital US industry sits idly by in the face of these airlines’ government subsidized expansion that is inflicting undue harm on US airlines and American jobs.
Worldwide air passenger traffic grew 5.9% year-over-year in 2014, exceeding the 10-year average growth rate (5.6%) and besting 2013’s YOY growth performance (5.2%), according to IATA,
Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) has ordered Taiwanese airlines TransAsia Airways and Uni Air to ground their ATR 72s and conduct engine inspections on the turboprops following the Feb. 4 crash of a TransAsia ATR 72-600 in Taipei.
The consultation on the three options shortlisted by the UK government-appointed Airports Commission for developing new runway capacity in the South East has now closed.
[UPDATED] A TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 has crashed into a river in Taipei, with at least 30 people reported dead. The incident occurred shortly after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan Airport just before 11am local time Feb. 4.
ICAO will have to boost its budget by 3% to pay a Web-based information database to provide airlines, air navigation service providers and member states a source of safety information about the risks to flights over and within conflict zones.
Representatives of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) believe the new European Commission (EC) lacks a vision for the continent’s airline industry.
FAA’s $15.83 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) seeks to patch holes created by chronic under-investment and the 2013 sequestration while funding what the agency calls a “continued, but measured” path forward.
Chorus Aviation, the parent company of Canada’s largest regional airline, has overhauled its business model—including securing an 11-year labor contract with its pilots.
Unconfirmed reports from officials at the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) investigating last year’s Indonesia AirAsia QZ8501 fatal crash have suggested the captain was not in his seat at the time of the incident.
Transport Canada Aviation Security has approved Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) for a Canadian foreign air operator’s certificate (FAOC), which permits scheduled passenger services from Ukraine to Canada.
American Airlines (AA) pilots have ratified a new, five-year collective bargaining agreement that brings all of the flight deck crew of the former American and US Airways under one labor contract.
The UK airline industry is uniting behind the British Air Transport Association (BATA) to call for air passenger duty (APD) to be abolished across the UK during the next Parliament.
Luxembourg-based Cargolux management continues to be stuck in difficult negotiations with Luxembourg labor unions after rejecting a collective work agreement (CWA) that expired at the end of December.
The government of Malaysia, citing Chicago Convention standards, has “officially” declared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 “an accident,” stating that “all 239 of the passengers and crew onboard MH370 are presumed to have lost their lives.”
