The federal government of the United States has introduced new safeguards for the airspace over the Hudson River in New York in response to the fatal mid-air collision between a small aircraft and a helicopter in August 2009.

A series of recent incidents involving pilot behaviour have given rise to widespread concerns in the passenger-aviation sector.

Iberia Airlines, the flag-carrier airline of Spain, has canceled about 400 flights scheduled for October 26 and 27, 2009, in view of the strike planned by the flight attendants of the airline.

The United States House of Representatives has passed the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009.

‘Hero of the Hudson’ Captain Chesley Sullenberger who, along with co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, succeeded in landing his crippled US Airways plane safely in the icy Hudson River in New York on January 15, 2009, is set to take to the skies again.

United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago, the United States, has won a preliminary court injunction against a pilots’ trade union preventing it from taking industrial action against the airline.

By the end of the current year, high fuel costs would spell doom for as many as 7000 employees at American Airlines.

Dubai-based airline major Emirates Airline is all set to give the staff wardrobe a better look. The airline’s 16,000-plus uniformed staff are to be given a sharper, more business-like look with the introduction of a brand new uniform, it is learnt.