The Indian Supreme Court has refused to stay a government order to increase royalty charges from private airlines for ground handling. A petition filed by Federation of Indian Airlines claims that st...
Nigeria has been classified a high-risk nation by aircraft lessors since the fatal Dana Air crash in June. As a result, lessors have raised lease rates on aircraft to Nigerian airlines by over 40%, wh...
The Indian government is considering creating a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to focus solely on safety, economic regulation and grievance resolution functions for airlines. The CAA will be a financi...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated a study into the safety of mobile electronic devices used by passengers. Although mobile telephones will not be included in the study and will r...
Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, in a speech to the International Society of Air Safety Investigators Annual Seminar in Baltimore, Maryland said th...
The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has confirmed that US Airways has agreed to cease union negotiations over terms of a potential merger with American Airlines (AA). Meetings scheduled between ...
An in-depth investigation into Ryanair's second takeover bid for Aer Lingus by the European Commission could run until the middle of January 2013. Investogators are analysing how competition would be ...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is conducting a safety audit of Kingfisher Airlines and Air India Express. Those carriers have been targeted due to the financial stress they are under...
In the Australian press it is going to be get-Alan day again no doubt starting tomorrow. Few airline executives in recent memory have had to put up with the stick that Alan Joyce has suffered and yet ...
On three occasions over the weekend, United Airlines aircraft were forced to make emergency landings leaving hundreds of passengers. A 757 aircraft travelling from Newark Liberty International Airport...
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined JetBlue Airways for not informing passengers on an aircraft delayed at New York’s JFK Airport that they had an opportunity to leave the plane as i...
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA), along with 11 other aviation organizations, reminded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano about the urgent need to final...
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