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.
In the world of air transportation, it sometimes seems as if just when the going gets (relatively) good, the bad comes knocking on the door. Outside forces beyond the control of airlines—wars, terrorism, economic crises, disease—can pierce through the thin skin of airline profitability.
Ireland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will appeal a European Commission (EC) ruling that it should repay more than €300,000 ($385 million) of what the EC has decided was unfair financial aid.
The Eurocontrol Network Manager and the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC)—set up by the European Commission and Eurocontrol to support coordination of the response to network crisis situations—say they are monitoring the evolution of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its potential impact on European aviation.
In 20 years, China will be the world’s largest airline passenger market, the US will have fallen to second place, and India will overtake the UK as the third-largest market, according to IATA’s new 20-year Global Passenger Forecast report.
Canadian training specialist CAE has signed a deal with Japan Airlines (JAL) to train its pilots in Tokyo, giving the company presence in a new and potentially fruitful Asia-Pacific market.
The European regional branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) is calling for “urgent coordination” between health authorities at a European Union (EU) level over the implementation of screening at airports and any potential risks to air travelers.
Banjul-based Gambia Bird Airlines has been forced to postpone its planned resumption of flights between London and the Sierra Leone capital Freetown Friday following the UK Department for Transport’s (DfT) decision to revoke the airline’s permit for direct flights between the two cities.
Air France-KLM Group and its pilot unions have reached an agreement over one of the most fractious aspects of the recent damaging strike by the cockpit crews.
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has acknowledged there will definitely be European airline failures over the next three to five years, potentially including some of its members.
The US, working to track down passengers on one flight that included a person who tested positive for Ebola, will pressure counterparts in several countries to step up efforts to help mitigate the outbreak’s reach, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking to interview 132 passengers who flew on an Oct. 13 Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth after one of the flight’s passengers tested positive for the Ebola virus.
IATA has created a venture capital fund to attract and support companies that develop applications and solutions for the IATA-led New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard.
IATA CEO and DG Tony Tyler has called the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) proposed Consumer Rule III a “yesterday solution” and warned against regulation that can stifle air travel innovation.
The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has called a 12-hour pilot strike on Thursday for Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, the latest in a series of ongoing protests over transition payments for early retirees.
Ryanair is expecting the UK Competition Commission (UKCC) to hear its appeal on the takeover of Aer Lingus over the next few months, setting the stage for its latest EU challenge that should come up in 2015.
Accumulated worldwide air freight volumes continued to rebound this past August, expanding 5.8% year-over-year, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
FAA’s Chicago En Route Center came back online early Monday morning, ending a 17-day outage that required creative approaches such as the use of adjacent facilities to maintain traffic flow and led FAA to stand up a review of air traffic center interruption-contingency plans.
Lufthansa pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) is planning more strikes within the next several days in its ongoing protest over transition payments for early retirees, a VC spokesperson was quoted by several German media outlets as saying.
