The European Union has banned Mozambique carriers, LAM Mozambique Airlines and Air Madagascar, from flying to its airports due to “significant safety deficiencies”. In an update to its blacklist, the ...
Max Pearson, an award-winning BBC journalist, suffered a heart attack on board a Singapore Airlines flight, leaving him with long-term heart damage after being forced to endure a 14-hour flight in car...
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has stated that the crash of two aircraft on the taxiway at New York’s JFK airport last week was due to human error, although he did not specify whether it was pilo...
Foreign airlines will have to provide full passenger information before entering Vietnam following a new decree to take effect from June 1. Decree 27/2011/ND-CP requires airlines to provide each pass...
Bad news for airlines but good news for passengers as the US Department of Transport looks to propose laws that require airlines to pay back baggage expenses when bags are lost or delayed. It would re...
A disabled woman successfully sued Ryanair yesterday after her husband was forced to carry her onto a flight using a fireman’s lift. Wheelchair-bound Jo Heath, 57, who suffers from multiple sclerosis,...
The UK is to defer a European-ordered partial lifting of restrictions on the carrying of liquids in airline hand luggage on security grounds. The lifting of the restrictions, which would only apply to...
American Airlines has filed an antitrust lawsuit in US district court in Texas against the travel website Orbitz.com and the distributor of its booking information. The airline accuses the company of ...
Europe was the United States to ease restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines, which is currently limited to 255 of voting stock. In Washington DC, European Commission Vice President Siim Kallas ...
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt announced yesterday that effective immediately the FAA will place an additional air traffic co...
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in the United Arab Emirates represented has signed an open air services Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and initialled an Air Services Agreement (ASA) wit...
The Reserve Bank of India has said that foreign airlines cannot route collections from online tickets sales in India directly to foreign bank accounts. At present, some airlines give Indian passengers...
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