LAHOOD DEMANDS FAA BILL BE PASSED
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has demanded the bill is passed to end the Federal Aviation Administration closed. At a White House briefing yesterday, LaHood said: “Congress needs to pass a clean...
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has demanded the bill is passed to end the Federal Aviation Administration closed. At a White House briefing yesterday, LaHood said: “Congress needs to pass a clean...
Ireland’s Department of Transport has stated that the €3 passenger air travel tax will remain until at least next spring because it is not happy with pledges from the airlines about increasing the num...
Boeing is seeking confidentiality protections for materials that may be submitted in the National Labor Relations Board case related to Boeing’s new aircraft production facility in North Charleston. “...
The Internal Revenue Service has asked airlines to refund customers who request a refund of the ticket tax already paid on airline tickets following the closure of the FAA. In a notice posted Wednesda...
Faced with growing international unease over the application of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) to aviation, the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), which represents some 65 intra-Eur...
While Congress continues to debate the pressing need for the US to raise its debt ceiling to avoid a default, the FAA funding extension program passed by the house, is unlikely to be passed by the Sen...
There are fears that the US government could double the security fees paid by airline passengers as part of its deficit-reduction plan. Although no firm proposals have been tabled, lobbyists represent...
Virgin Atlantic has suggested that short haul flights should take a greater share of air passenger duty (APD) burden. The long-haul carrier says APD has increased on its flights by 50% over the past f...
The US has moved to ban US airlines’ participation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme in bipartisan legislation proposed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The Republican chairman of ...
South Korea’s prime minister Kim Hwang-Sik has urged Japan to drop its boycott of a Korean Air after it flew over the Dokdo islands, which are known as Takeshima in Japan, which are claimed by both na...
The operators of Airone Ltd, trading as REDjet, commercial air services, which launched legal action against the Civil Aviation Authority of Trinidad and Tobago and Amral Mohammed, in his capacity as ...
Talks were suspended between union leaders and Air Algerie management when it was claimed a promise to reinstate staff sacked during last week’s four-day strike had not been honoured. "We withdrew fro...
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