The Federal Aviation Administration advisory panel has announced it wants to ensure that airline co-pilots have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flying experience, the same experience threshold of capta...
The United Arab Emirates and Portugal have agreed an “open” Air Services Agreement (ASA) and signed a Record of Discussion. The agreement, which replaces an old agreement initialled on May 2, 2005 ...
An internal review of the Office of Fair Trading’s price-fixing case against four British Airways executives has found that weak investigation processes and flawed management oversight were to blam...
Indian private airlines are being forced to fall into line with new government measures to restrain steep fare rises. Because domestic air fares rose sharply over the past two months, with last-day ...
IATA figures show international premium traffic rose 10.9% in October, while the annualized rate is around 7%-8% demonstrating the strong demand for business travel. October economy class traffic w...
President Benigno Aquino III has stepped in to sort out the PAL battle with employees. In an assumption order dated December 15, the President directed the airline and its labour union, the PAL Employ...
The Future of Aviation Advisory Committee has recommended the US government help airlines pay for high-tech navigation equipment and look again at whether airline passengers should be allowed to carry...
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...
Ryanair has threatened Spanish unions representing air traffic controllers for lose of earnings during the widecat strike earlier in December. The low cost carrier, which was forced to cancel more ...
Galaxy Enterprises, the Maldivian general sales agent of Sri Lankan Airline, has caught a person selling forged Sri Lankan Airline tickets outside the company’s office. The fraudster was caught aft...
Airline CEOs and consumer rights' groups are meeting together for the first time with the ministry of civil aviation's newly-formed advisory body the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) today to discuss...
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