Luxembourg-based Luxair has a new accord with its staff and unions after several months of intense labor discord concerning a new collective labor agreement.
Indonesia AirAsia has conceded it did not officially have the authority to operate the Surabaya-Singapore route on Sundays when its Airbus A320-200 operating as flight QZ8501 on the route crashed Sunday, Dec. 28 into the Java Sea.
Finnair and South African Airways (SAA) have become the first two airlines to achieve the highest level of IATA Environmental Assessment (IEnvA) certification.
Following the crash of Indonesia AirAsia QZ8501 and subsequent revelations of flight scheduling contraventions, regional authorities are clamping down on a number of Southeast Asian operators.
Throughput at the controversial US Customs and Border Protection pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi Airport will increase from this week, with all Etihad Airways passengers from the Persian Gulf airport heading to the US now passing through the center.
Philippine aviation officials have hit Cebu Pacific with a record fine over a spate of delays during the Christmas period, and changes to regulations may also be forthcoming.
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-400 freighter, operating for Togolese carrier ASKY, skidded off the runway at Accra in Ghana on Saturday, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.
Philippine low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific is due to argue its case this week regarding its application to start flights to Italy, while the airline is also waiting to hear what penalties may be imposed for a rash of delays over the Christmas period.
Flight attendants at Silver Airways will join the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), a move that may increase costs at the Florida-based company as it transitions to a new business model.
The Indonesian military is endeavoring to lift the tail section of the crashed Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320-200 out of the Java Sea, and search and rescue officials are hopeful of finding the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
The new president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has urged members of the European Parliament to vote in favor of sharing airline passenger data between nations, in the wake of this week’s terrorist incidents in Paris.
FAA is proposing new rules for three New York-area airports that would increase slot utilization at the slot-constrained facilities and create a more transparent mechanism for transferring slots.
The Russian Interstate Aviation Committee has granted approval for Airbus to operate the A320 family aircraft in extreme cold weather conditions—down to minus 54° Celsius (-65.2°F).
Global air passenger traffic demand grew 6% in November, driven substantially by surging 6.9% year-over-year domestic travel growth, particularly in China (up 15.4% year-over-year) and India (up 14.2% YOY), according to IATA’s November Air Passenger Market Analysis Report.
The worldwide air freight market grew 4.2% year-over-year in November, largely delivered by carriers in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, according to IATA’s November Air Freight Market Analysis.
While it has been nearly six years since the last fatal crash involving a US commercial airline, US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx said there is still room to improve.
The Russian government will increase subsidies for domestic regional routes in the first quarter of 2015, TASS news agency reported, quoting Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
FAA has issued a final rule requiring all US commercial airlines to establish a safety management system (SMS), which uses data analysis to identify safety risks, by 2018.
Search and rescue operators have located the tail of the Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 that crashed into the Java Sea in December, it was reported Wednesday.
Indonesia’s government said it has suspended a number of airport and air traffic control (ATC) officials who were on duty when Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 took off from Surabaya Dec. 28, while searchers in the Java Sea said the Airbus A320’s tail may have been spotted.
Lufthansa Group will be fueling its aircraft at Oslo Airport with a biokerosene mixture, becoming the first airline group to sign this kind of contract with Norwegian oil company Statoil Aviation.
