The Federal Aviation Administration has stated that aircraft manufacturers and airlines must intensify and streamline inspections of the metallic skeleton and skin of aircraft to ward off serious stru...
The European Union is reported to be trying to force Ireland to agree to a big rise in its rate of corporation tax as a condition of an €80 billion economic rescue package. Ireland has not yet made a ...
The Canadian federal government is being sued by several small airlines who say they lost more than $1 million due to security restrictions imposed during the Olympic Games and want to be compensated ...
Canada and Qatar have agreed to allow Qatar Airways to fly three passenger flights and three cargo flights a week to and from the Gulf sheikdom. Such a quiet and quick agreement has brought into sharp...
The European Parliament deems the sharing of passenger name records (PNR) initiative between the US and the EU as “intrusive”. The date, personal information such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, t...
Qantas Airways will now require the approval of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority before it can return its fleet of A380s to service. The authority will “decide if it’s happy or not” with...
The US Department of Transportation has granted antitrust immunity for a new joint trans-Pacific airline venture to be operated by United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Japan’s ANA. The new ventur...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised Israel for its inferior aviation safety record. The association caused the safety situation a “national embarrassment” and warned of t...
The Indian Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has issued show-cause notices to Kingfisher Airlines for not paying service tax related to their sponsorship of the Indian Premier League (IPL). K...
The flight cancellation rate for US airlines was 4,754 flights in September, which represents a 62% jump from the same month a year ago. A new rule imposed by the Transportation Department has been bl...
Mike Cleary, president of the US Airline Pilots Association has advised his members not to go through full body scanners. The union leader says pilots shouldn't submit to the repeated doses of radiati...
Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, has deemed the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) as nothing more than an extra tax on airlines. He commented that rather than helping to reduce ...
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