Tony Tyler, head of IATA, has commented at the EU-ASEAN Aviation Summit in Singapore on a number of global aviation issues but specifically on the subject of passenger rights. Tyler raised his concern...
Air Zimbabwe (Private) company secretary Grace Pfumbidzayi has been found guilty of defrauding the airline of $5,175,593 and US$1,204,670 in an aviation insurance scam. A disciplinary tribunal found t...
A diplomatic conference is planned for next month to update international law on dealing with unruly passengers since incidents have increased dramatically since records started to be kept by IATA in ...
The US Embassy in the South American nation of Guyana has warned of a threat to Caribbean Airline flights from Guyana to the US. It urged Americans to find alternate travel arrangements for the next t...
Ed Winters, CEO of fastjet, has called on the government to deregulate the market in South Africa in order to create a more level playing field for airlines flying to the country. Winters states that ...
The European Parliament has voted today on proposals from the European Commission to strengthen passenger rights including: measures to ensure that air passengers have new and better rights to informa...
Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation has granted an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) to Thai AirAsia X. The airline may now commence operations from Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport. Thai...
Canberra-based Brindabella went into receivership in December owing $37.7m say its receivers, and could have been trading while technically insolvent. The grounding of the airline caused 140 employees...
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that India has been assigned a Category 2 rating under its International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) pro...
Updated rules on air navigation services giving national regulators more independence and industry more say in designing more efficient airspace navigation were overwhelmingly backed by the transport ...
The European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will cover CO2 emissions from intercontinental flights to or from EU airports for the emissions over EU and EEA airspace from April 2015 to April 2016, unde...
The Department of Transport's Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) has published a report into the crash of a Manx2.com Fairchild turboprop at Cork Airport on February 10, 2011 where six people died...
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