US PROPOSES NEW LAW ON BAGGAGE
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...
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...
Workers for Delta Air Lines Inc. and other air carriers will have more leeway to trade work shifts when a new Minnesota law takes effect Friday. Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill yesterday that exempts a...
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told Congress this week that the agency is reviewing regulations for inspecting aging aircraft following the midair fuselage skin rupture on a Southwest Airlines 737-30...
According to the pilots union, BALPA, there is a growing problem of fatigue among flight crew. It has have voiced concern that this will worsen under EU proposals to increase flying hours from 900 hou...
Virgin Blue has settled out of court with Navitaire, the IT company deemed responsible for a failure in the airline’s system last year. The airline said it had reached a “mutually exclusive” agreement...
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