An investigation has found that the pilot of the Air India Express aircraft that crashed in Mangalore in May 2010 dozed off while flying the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The pilot overshot the table-top r...
The US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has reported that US scheduled passenger airlines employed 0.6% fewer workers in September 2010 than in September 2009. ...
South American drugs gangs are reported to be buying used commercial aircraft to transport cocaine from South America to Africa, say US prosecutors. The gangs are alleged to be buying the jets then fl...
Ryanair is proposing to withdraw its service from Durham Tees Valley Airport’s (DTV) in protest over controversial new charges. From yesterday, passengers were required to pay a £6 facility fee owners...
Ratan Tata has revealed that he had tried to set up a domestic airline in collaboration with Singapore Airlines ten years ago but was repeated thwarted by the government. Tata alleged a rival industri...
Colombia agreed to liberalise US-Colombia air services for airlines of both countries and became the United State’s 100th Open-Skies partner. Once full Open Skies takes effect at the end of 2012, airl...
Pilots, flight attendants, and liberty groups are protesting that pat-down procedures go "extremely voyeuristic and intrusive." The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) pat-down procedure is p...
The Federal Aviation Administration has stated that aircraft manufacturers and airlines must intensify and streamline inspections of the metallic skeleton and skin of aircraft to ward off serious stru...
The European Union is reported to be trying to force Ireland to agree to a big rise in its rate of corporation tax as a condition of an €80 billion economic rescue package. Ireland has not yet made a ...
The Canadian federal government is being sued by several small airlines who say they lost more than $1 million due to security restrictions imposed during the Olympic Games and want to be compensated ...
Canada and Qatar have agreed to allow Qatar Airways to fly three passenger flights and three cargo flights a week to and from the Gulf sheikdom. Such a quiet and quick agreement has brought into sharp...
The European Parliament deems the sharing of passenger name records (PNR) initiative between the US and the EU as “intrusive”. The date, personal information such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, t...
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