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.
The head of US intelligence has told the aviation industry that he believes in working jointly with them against security threats, but also warned that protecting intelligence agents and their technologies was essential.
Italian flag-carrier may eliminate close to 1,000 jobs following an agreement between airline management and its trade unions, according to an Italian news agency report.
The UK’s largest bank, HSBC, has joined a project between Virgin Atlantic and New Zealand-originating research company LanzaTech to develop a new, low-carbon fuel.
Deutsche Lufthansa is realigning its IT activities and will enter into a seven-year partnership with IBM, which it expects will reduce its IT infrastructure costs by at least €70 million ($89.4 million) per year.
Southwest Airlines and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—representing the carrier’s approximately 6,000 customer service agents and customer support and services representatives—have reached a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract. The current contract became amendable in October 2012.
US scheduled passenger airlines posted a full-time-equivalent (FTE) employee count of 384,478 personnel in August, up just 1% year-over-year, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Delta Air Lines pilot Tim Canoll has been elected as the new president of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing more than 51,000 pilots at 30 airlines in the US and Canada.
Global international passenger traffic rebounded across-the-board in August, as overall traffic grew 4.5% year-over-year after two months of weak growth in the 2-3% range, according to IATA’s August Premium Traffic Monitor.
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) have opened a demonstration facility—called the China-US Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project—that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel.
International air freight volumes are expected to grow at a five-year 4.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to IATA’s Airline Industry Forecast for 2014-2018.
The European Commission (EC) is seeking input into whether SkyTeam members Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and Alitalia have unfair dominance on their transatlantic New York services.
Association of European Airlines (AEA) CEO Athar Husain Khan has pushed back against the suggestion that European airlines are protectionist, redirecting the focus onto other, less liberalized markets.
Air France is operating a series of flights powered by biofuels on its Toulouse-Paris Orly route between now and next September to showcase its Lab’line For the Future project.
A high-level meeting of 21 European health ministers, co-organized by the Italian Presidency and the European Commission, has failed to reach common ground on the issue of entry screening at Europe’s airports for passengers arriving from Ebola-affected countries.
As the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) calls another pilot strike for Monday and Tuesday for Lufthansa’s short- and medium-haul operations, the carrier is holding firm in its commitment to work on a sustainable long-term cost structure.
