The U.S. Department of Transportation today fined Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines for providing inaccurate information to passengers about how much compensation they could potentially receive for being denied boarding against their will, or “bumped” on oversold flights, and for lost, damaged, or delayed baggage. Alaska Airlines was fined $40,000, American … Read more
Hawaiian Airlines pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, will open a Strike Operations Center near Honolulu International Airport
Piper Aircraft announced it has been awarded approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for the new Piper M500
Atlas Air announced that it has entered into a five-year agreement with FedEx Express to provide it with five 747-400 freighter aircraft for peak flying seasons beginning in 2017 and lasting through 2021. Peak season flying generally occurs in the month of December and potentially earlier. An agreement to provide five aircraft for the 2016 … Read more
From 1 December TAP Portugal is recommencing its flights to Bissau, offering two flights a week to the capital of Guinea-Bissau.
Regional Express logged a loss of $9.6 million, its first red ink in 14 years, a sharp turnaround on last year’s $6.7m profit
Qantas reported an underlying profit before tax of $1.53 billion for the 12 months ended 30 June 2016, the best result in its 95-year history.
KLM will resume service to the Iranian capital of Tehran from 30 October 2016. This will be the 14th new destination KLM has added to its network in 2016.
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated the capability of the A400M new generation airlifter to operate on a sand runway.
Joshua Strickland has been jailed for six months after his abusive and aggressive behaviour forced Jet2.com to divert a flight to Manchester last month.