WikiLeaks cables have revealed that the crew of an American Airlines jet was detained in Venezuela in 2008 after making a minor joke over the aircraft address system about President Hugo Chavez. Th...
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined JetBlue Airways $600,000for violating rules protecting air travellers with disabilities and for failing to disclose when flights sold by the carr...
New York City will become the new home city for the oneworld alliance. The alliance is moving its central alliance team from Vancover to NYC to help establish oneworld as the foremost airline allia...
Bombardier has been ordered by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal to $319,000 in damages to a Canadian of Pakistani origin after he was denied pilot training because he had been identified as a "thre...
The largest US airlines reported no flights in October with tarmac delays of more than three hours, according to official figures from the US Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Repo...
The US State Department has agreed the framework for an open-skies aviation deal with Brazil. The deal will increase the available number of flights between the countries from next October, with ba...
American Airlines is being sued by a Puerto Rican woman for $15 million after she claims she ate a lizard served in her in-flight meal. However the airline maintains it was chicken skin. ...
The Canadian airline industry is lobbying the federal government to lower taxes and fees on air travellers. At a Miami conference Vito Culmone, CFO of WestJet said: "We believe the taxes and fee struc...
An Air India co-pilot terrified passengers when he accidentally sent the 737 aircraft into a nosedive after hitting the control column while adjusting his seat. The incident onboard the flight from Du...
The Federal Aviation Administration has restored Mexico's civil aviation authority’s top aviation safety rating of Category 1 due to significant improvements being made. A review made by the US ...
Singapore Airlines Cargo has agreed to plead guilty to fixing prices on air-cargo shipments. The airline will pay a $48 million criminal fine. The US Justice Department charged the airline of engag...
Recent US government papers describe Washington’s anger with the new aviation passenger duty, Britain’s extradition arrangements with America and lax visa checks on Pakistanis coming to Britain. The p...
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