US ANTITERRORIST RULES The EU has side stepped away from mandating that aircraft carriers disable or remove oxygen generators in plane bathrooms, saying they lack legal authority to call for the chang...
Ryanair has continued to defend its right to hold a minority stake in Aer Lingus by legally challenging a UK Office of Fair Trading investigation. Ryanair claims the regulator has waited too long to i...
Australia and China have signed memorandum of understanding to boost aviation capacity between the two countries by up to 50%, or 8000 seats per week. Some 4000 seats will be added from February next ...
India and Brazil have signed a bilateral air service agreement to increase air connectivity. The agreement allows both the countries to designate any number of airlines on reciprocal basis, unlike in ...
In a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has maintained that although it would cooperate with the management of Air India in the ongoing eva...
Emirates Airlines is being sued in the US District Court in Texas by the family of Carol Wilson, who suffered a heart attack on a flight from Dubai last year. The family claims the airline staff faile...
Six flight attendants are suing Delta Air Lines over claims the carrier punished them for their union membership while working for Northwest Airlines before the two carriers merged in 2008. They claim...
Airlines have joined airports and tour operators to ask the UK chancellor not to raise contentious air passenger taxes in this month’s Budget. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, as well as Heathrow ...
The decision last month by the EU to block the proposed merger of Olympic Airlines and Aegean will now be appealed by the airlines. Olympic said the decision of the European Commission “disrupted the ...
AirTran flight attendants protested yesterday in Orlando airport over pay. After three years of contract negotiations, they say they’ve had enough. Chants of ‘Buck up Bob’ were aimed at AirTran CEO Bo...
The Central Jakarta District Court has revoked a decision by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) to impose fines amounting to Rp 585 billion (US$66.7 million) on nine local airlines...
Indian aviation authority, DGCA, has cancelled the licence of a woman pilot of no-frills airline IndiGo after a rough landing last month as well as the discovery she allegedly faked permit papers. The...
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