The recent snow disruption affecting UK and European airports has prompted the European transport commissioner Siim Kallas to propose minimum service requirements for airports. Kallas criticised th...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced it will start grounding airlines that are indebted to it. As a result, a number of airlines are already seeking to reconcile their acc...
A new study by KPMG has stated that airlines are circumnavigating strict merger rules by entering into partnerships that garner many of the benefits of merging without the legal restrictions. The ...
The European air safety agency has proposed new limits on flight hours for commercial pilots to combat fatigue. The new rules would prohibit pilots from being on duty for longer than 14 hours duri...
Air India is reported to have issued an advisory extending work hours of its crew during flight diversion but then immediately withdrew it because it did not have approval of the Director General of...
Airlines from the Philippines have called on the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), to investigate the allegedly illegal “partnership” between Singapore’s Tiger Airways and loc...
The Federal Aviation Administration advisory panel has announced it wants to ensure that airline co-pilots have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flying experience, the same experience threshold of capta...
The United Arab Emirates and Portugal have agreed an “open” Air Services Agreement (ASA) and signed a Record of Discussion. The agreement, which replaces an old agreement initialled on May 2, 2005 ...
An internal review of the Office of Fair Trading’s price-fixing case against four British Airways executives has found that weak investigation processes and flawed management oversight were to blam...
Indian private airlines are being forced to fall into line with new government measures to restrain steep fare rises. Because domestic air fares rose sharply over the past two months, with last-day ...
IATA figures show international premium traffic rose 10.9% in October, while the annualized rate is around 7%-8% demonstrating the strong demand for business travel. October economy class traffic w...
President Benigno Aquino III has stepped in to sort out the PAL battle with employees. In an assumption order dated December 15, the President directed the airline and its labour union, the PAL Employ...
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