A Merpati Nusantara Airlines MA60 turboprop made a hard landing at El Tari airport in Kupang, Indonesia, Monday, seriously damaging the aircraft and injuring some passengers.
Alitalia’s top executives will see their pay drop by 20% and administrative staff has agreed to reduced salaries and working hours under the carrier’s latest turnaround drive.
The European Commission has threatened to take Belgium and Greece to the European Union (EU) Court of Justice if they do not ratify an agreement with the Western Balkans to establish a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA).
The US House of Representatives passed an amendment that would prohibit the US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) from establishing a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH).
Air New Zealand is further increasing its stake in Virgin Australia under an agreement to acquire a further 3% of the shares of the Australian carrier and take its interest to almost 23%.
Alaska Airlines and its 1,480 pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year labor contract.
Assessing the performance of European Air Navigation Services (ANS), the Performance Review Commission (PRC) has called for a new way of representing safety performance and suggested development of a European concept of Acceptable Level of Safety (ALoS) as a means of enhancing safety.
IATA members have endorsed two initiatives by the association, one that provides a set of passenger rights guidelines for governments and another supporting a new distribution standard.
Brazilian carrier GOL and UK-based Virgin Atlantic Airways are both likely candidates for joining SkyTeam, the global alliance’s managing director said Monday.
News from Travel Technology Update: An advisory body to the European Commission on data protection and privacy has told IATA that its New Distribution Capability (NDC) project “raises a number of privacy and human rights concerns, in particular those related to the profiling of individuals.”
IATA airlines have strongly endorsed a resolution that calls for a single system for offsetting global aviation carbon emissions and provides governments with a set of principles for establishing that system.
More people are spending more time in airports and while they are there, their appetite for bandwidth has skyrocketed as mobile devices play an increasingly large role in everyday life and the travel experience.
On its face, IATA Resolution 787 presents a simple idea: Since airlines want to get into merchandising and differentiation of their products, it would be best to create technical standards so they don’t all go off in different directions.
With barely four months to go before the September ICAO assembly deadline for reaching a global agreement on market-based measures to offset aviation emissions, the prospects seem somber.
University of North Dakota department of aviation chair Kent Lovelace remembers a time—not too long ago—when student pilots were eager to go work for airlines.
Three European institutions—the Commission, the Council and Parliament—have agreed on proposals to transform the region’s fragmented transport system into a unified transport network.
UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said an emergency landing May 24 by a British Airways Airbus A319 at London Heathrow Airport was caused by the engine cowling doors being left unlatched following maintenance.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued a Flight Simulation Device Certificate for Baltic Aviation Academy’s Airbus A320 Full Flight Simulator (FFS).
Hainan Airlines parent HNA Group is preparing to apply to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to launch five new airlines as the regulator loosens its grip on approving new entrants.
Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has approved Virgin Australia’s acquisition of a 60% stake in Tiger Airways Australia, Virgin Australia Holdings (VAH) has announced.
