Air France-KLM, the world's biggest airline, and three other airlines have been sentenced to pay total fines of US $504 million for having conspired to fix prices of air cargo.

Southwest Airlines Company, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, has announced that is planning to drop 31 flights but add 40 others, including a big push into Denver.

A passenger’s choice of seat in an aircraft has much to do with his safety.

Dubai has a new low cost airline and it has been christened FlyDubai.

Deutsche Lufthansa has announced that it expected to meet its target for operating profits in 2008 despite record-high prices of aviation fuel.

A business group has recommended that the British Aviation Authority (BAA), the owner of London’s Heathrow airport, scrap about 5,000 flights a year in order to relieve congestion.

American Airlines will reduce flights at many airports in the United States as well as overseas later in 2008.

United Airlines, the second-biggest airline in the United States, is planning to lay off 950 pilots, which is 15% of its total number of pilots.

Japan Airlines Corporation is planning to fly Asia’s first commercial jet flight powered by second-generation biofuel.

Virgin's Richard Branson, the UK billionaire, is in talks with partners in Brazil to start a Brazilian airline.

India's airline major, Jet Airways, has recorded losses for the March quarter 2008 on skyrocketing jet fuel prices.

Sudan Airways, the national carrier of Sudan, resumed operations a few hours after the airline’s fleet was grounded for having violated civil aviation requirements.

Qantas, the national airline of Australia, cancelled 18 flights on June 24, 2008, as engineers struck work to press their demand for an increase in wages.

Midwest Airlines, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the United States, is grounding its entire fleet of 12 MD-80 aircraft, which account for about  one-third of its fleet, and laying off employees as part of its restructuring plans.

Garuda Indonesia, the national airline of Indonesia, and Singapore Airlines (SIA), the national airline of Singapore, have signed an agreement on code-sharing, joint marketing and other arrangements aimed at enhancing traffic between Indonesia and Singapore.

Vietnam has decided to do away with tariffs on import of jet fuel – which stands at 5% currently – from July 2008 in an effort to help the country’s airlines survive in the time of prohibitively high prices of oil.

According to an official of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration, Taiwan and China have signed a “historic agreement” to allow each side to operate 18 round-trip passenger charter flights from Friday through Monday.

In an important breakthrough in the aviation sector, Japan will allot 20 additional slots for Indian carriers at Narita international Airport in Tokyo by 2010. This will result in the Indian airlines operating up to 28 services to Tokyo every week from 4 at present.

Singapore Airlines, the world’s second-biggest airline by market value, will increase fuel surcharges for tickets issued from June 24, 2008, in order to cope with the dramatic rise in the costs of jet fuel.

While major airlines around the world are making loses, Southwest Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, is preparing to reap  profits.

Northwest Airlines, a major airline based in the United States, will once again cut its capacity in the fourth quarter of 2008 and reduce its workforce in its efforts to cope with rising prices of aviation fuel.

In a rare incident of its kind, a group of airline passengers have moved court seeking to block the proposed merger between Northwest Airlines Corporation and Delta Air Lines Incorporated.

Continental Airlines and United Airlines, both based in the United States, have signed an agreement to connect their networks and operations worldwide.

Top economic policy-makers of Japan are in favour of entering into an open-sky agreement with the United States and the European Union.

A revolutionary technique that would enable a damaged aircraft to “repair itself,” even during a flight, has been developed.

IBS Software, the Kerala-based provider of new-generation IT solutions to the global Travel, Transportation and Logistics (TTL) industries, has signed a deal with Oman Air.

The Australian luxury conservation resort, Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa owned by Emirates Hotels and Resorts, which spreads across 4000 acres, has reached its first milestone with the completion of the first of 40 villas, and the planting of the first 1,000 native trees on site.

Emirates Airline, the largest customer for the A380 superjumbo, will receive the first of its 58 A380 aircraft on order from Airbus’ Hamburg facility on 28th July 2008.

Bahrain Air's first flight for the Kochi-Bahrain service have started from the Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery, Kerala from May 26, 2008. 

Emirates, one of the world’s fastest-growing carriers has announced plans to advance its Indian operation with 18 additional flights per week, effective July 1 2008.