The seasonal cycle of passenger load factors normally sees a fall in November each year and 2010 is no different. The industry passenger load factor in November was 75.6%. Stripping out the seasonalit...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has fined American Eagle Airlines $330,000 for allegedly operating an Embraer 135 regional aircraft on 12 passenger flights when it was not in compliance w...
The Trinidad and Tobago government has approved Caribbean Airlines request to spend $200 million to buy nine ATR aircraft.The agreement ends a long-running dispute over the issue between the Transp...
American Airlines is accused of violating protocol pertaining to the handling of aircraft flight recorders. Following any incident involving aircraft, airlines are required to submit the cockpit vo...
The United Arab Emirates and the Yemen have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase flights between the two countries. The agreement will add a further four weekly flights by Dubai carriers ...
The UK Department of Transportation was seeking to push through legislation making airports liable for multimillion-pound fines for significant delays caused by snow as seen in December 2010. Howev...
The Russian Federal Service for Transport Supervision (Rostransnadzor) has recommended all Russian airlines temporarily refrain from the use of Tu-154 B aircraft. The crash of the aircraft type at S...
Airline worker unions, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), have been told they have grounds to sue Delta over its...
India's civilian airspace regulator, the Airports Authority of India (AAI), will introduce new navigation norms to help save on fuel costs by accommodating more aircraft in narrower air corridors. ...
The recent snow disruption affecting UK and European airports has prompted the European transport commissioner Siim Kallas to propose minimum service requirements for airports. Kallas criticised th...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced it will start grounding airlines that are indebted to it. As a result, a number of airlines are already seeking to reconcile their acc...
A new study by KPMG has stated that airlines are circumnavigating strict merger rules by entering into partnerships that garner many of the benefits of merging without the legal restrictions. The ...
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