Bumped passengers to get more compensation
New regulations come into force today that mean passengers that are bumped from overbooked flights and require a refund of fees for lost baggage, can claim increased compensation. Passengers who are...
New regulations come into force today that mean passengers that are bumped from overbooked flights and require a refund of fees for lost baggage, can claim increased compensation. Passengers who are...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved Qantas Airways’ proposed alliance with American Airlines. The Commission states the partnership between the two carriers will n...
A North Vancouver businessman, Ahmet Kadioglu, has filed a lawsuit against Cathay Pacific accusing the airline of pocketing a fee that it misrepresented as a tax when adding it to the cost of his Va...
Engineers at Qantas have confirmed they will take industrial action from next Thursday with one-hour rolling stoppages in five locations on different days and are scheduled to continue until December ...
The federal arbitrator appointed to the pension dispute between Air Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) has been granted an extension. The CAW ended to a three-day strike at Air Canada in June ...
A federal judge has ruled that US Airways Group can proceed with a lawsuit accusing its pilots union of encouraging and engaging in an unlawful work slowdown, rejecting the US Airline Pilots Associati...
The CAAC has approved Spring Airlines’ request to launch a daily Shanghai-Beijing route in September. Despite the launch of a high-speed rail link between the two cities, Spring Airlines’ chairman Wan...
Brazil’s finance ministry has granted its approval of Grupo TAM’s proposed merger with Chile’s LAN Airlines. Although the Treasury Department’s Secretaria de Acompanhamento Economico identified overla...
The European Commission is investigating improper state aid at regional airports in the 27 member states. Last month it announced it has launched in-depth investigations at Marseille and Frankfurt Hah...
The International Association of Machinists has been selected in a second election to represent workers at the newly merged United Continental Holdings. The union was selected over rival International...
Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole has claimed that the screening of airline passengers could be far less intrusive in future. The “Checkpoint of the Future”, which is three quickly ac...
A group of Delta Air Lines pilots dis-satisfied with its current union national policies is threatening to form an independent union. The group has objected to the Air Line Pilots Association labor ag...
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