The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued notices to all airline CEOs asking them to explain why travellers were being charged excessive fares. The move follows a probe by the regula...
Trade association, the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) called for significant revisions to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposal on Flightcrew Member Duty and Rest Requiremen...
French financial regulator the Autorite des Marches Financiers has fined aerospace-services company GECI Aviation and a company board member for publishing misleading information and trading on inside...
Environment groups are challenging London’s Newham council in the UK’s Royal Courts of Justice over its decision to allow London City airport to expand by 50. Protestors say residents are blighted by...
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has said he would welcome “any foray” by Tatas into the civil aviation sector, effectively denying Ratan Tata’s recent claim to have been frozen out of the busines...
An investigation has found that the pilot of the Air India Express aircraft that crashed in Mangalore in May 2010 dozed off while flying the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The pilot overshot the table-top r...
The US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has reported that US scheduled passenger airlines employed 0.6% fewer workers in September 2010 than in September 2009. ...
South American drugs gangs are reported to be buying used commercial aircraft to transport cocaine from South America to Africa, say US prosecutors. The gangs are alleged to be buying the jets then fl...
Ryanair is proposing to withdraw its service from Durham Tees Valley Airport’s (DTV) in protest over controversial new charges. From yesterday, passengers were required to pay a £6 facility fee owners...
Ratan Tata has revealed that he had tried to set up a domestic airline in collaboration with Singapore Airlines ten years ago but was repeated thwarted by the government. Tata alleged a rival industri...
Colombia agreed to liberalise US-Colombia air services for airlines of both countries and became the United State’s 100th Open-Skies partner. Once full Open Skies takes effect at the end of 2012, airl...
Pilots, flight attendants, and liberty groups are protesting that pat-down procedures go "extremely voyeuristic and intrusive." The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) pat-down procedure is p...
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