Airports Council International’s World Annual Traffic Report released this month details a “strong rebound from the two-year industry slump”.
The China Air Transport Assn. and the Arab Air Carriers Organization have reiterated their calls for the European Union to rethink plans to include aviation in its Emissions Trading Scheme starting next year.
Grounded airline Tiger Airways Australia should know by the end of next week whether it can resume flights, after a court hearing on the suspension was again adjourned.
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday afternoon that a “bipartisan compromise” between House of Representatives’ Republicans and Senate Democrats was brokered to end the partial shutdown of FAA that has halted airport construction projects across the US for nearly two weeks.
Air France’s largest pilots’ union suspended cooperation on Wednesday with investigators seeking to identify the causes of a fatal 2009 crash of a Rio de Janeiro-to-Paris flight, in protest of what it said was a decision by investigators to play down the role of the plane’s stall-warning system in an interim report last week.
QANTAS acted unlawfully, abandoned its duty of care and exposed one of its pilots to a potential breach of Chinese immigration law when it offloaded him and his son in Hong Kong over an industrial matter, the pilots’ union says.
“For all dead comrades, not a minute’s silence, but a life of struggle.”
—Olav Magnus Linge, Norway’s Socialist Youth
Air India’s integration into Star Alliance has been put “on hold”, after it failed to meet the alliance’s standards.