The UK Supreme Court has rejected applications by both Jet2.com and Thomson Airlines to appeal rulings by the Court of Appeal in June relating to airlines’ liability to pay compensation after travel delays.
Etihad Airways has recruited 40 fully qualified pilots from Alitalia as part of a large-scale global campaign to hire between 500 to 600 captains and first officers over the next three years to keep pace with the rapid expansion of its fleet and global network.
The number of people expected to travel on US airlines between Nov. 21 and Dec. 2—the Thanksgiving Holiday and busiest US travel period—is expected to increase slightly this year over the previous year, with indications that traffic will remain strong into the 2015 first quarter.
Global air passenger traffic demand grew 5.3% year-over-year in September, down 1 point from August’s adjusted 6.3% year-over-year growth, according to IATA’s September Air Passenger Market Analysis report.
Worldwide air freight markets exhibited a third consecutive month of significant demand growth in September as collective volumes rose 5.2% year-over-year, according to IATA’s September air freight market analysis.
Qantas has struck a setback in its attempt to impose an 18-month wage freeze on all employee groups, after its short-haul pilots rejected a new contract including this clause.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation team probing the cause of the Oct. 31 crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane said two seconds before beginning to break-up in midair the vehicle’s two moveable tail booms unexpectedly began to deploy into a “feathering” position.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) has crashed into the Mojave Desert after experiencing an inflight “anomaly” during the first test of a new hybrid rocket motor at Mojave, California on Oct. 31.
US airlines’ impressive financial turnaround has not yet been coupled with significant growth as the country’s carriers cautiously keep capacity in check, eager to maintain profitability after years of heavy losses and restructuring. But north of the border, Canada’s evolving airlines are not shying away from aggressive growth.
Etihad Airways’ first A380 emerged from behind a slowly raised hangar door on a blustery autumn evening at Airbus’ Hamburg facility. Lights and music accompanied the first public glimpse of the Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s new livery, which features gold, sand and brown geometric patterns that Etihad calls “facets of Abu Dhabi.”
The negotiating team of Air Namibia, in conjunction with the Namibia Cabin Crew Union (NCCU), has announced that an agreement has been signed this week following lengthy negotiations on the cabin crew benchmarking dispute of 2010.
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $10.2 million FAA grants to six airports to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program.
NAV CANADA—an efficiency initiative led by Canada’s air navigation services provider (ANSP)—has demonstrated the viability and safety of aircraft varying speeds and altitudes while transiting the North Atlantic (NAT) in airspace beyond the range of conventional surveillance systems.
The search for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) is set to accelerate in the coming days, as a third vessel transitions from survey work to searching the vast seafloor area that has been mapped out and surveyed, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.
American Airlines is not moving to a revenue-based frequent flyer program when it merges its AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles systems in the second quarter of next year, but the Dallas-based carrier is not ruling out such a change in the future.
Security regulators are not keeping pace with the needs of the air transport industry and are not ready for new challenges such as cyber attacks, according to the head of Lufthansa security.
IATA has launched a set of tools that airlines, airports and air traffic management organizations can use to help identify, assess and reduce their chances of a cyber attack.
The need for greater collaboration and information-sharing over where it is safe to fly was highlighted by the confusion that surrounded an incident in July when a rocket landed close to Tel Aviv airport, the CEO of Air Canada said Monday.
