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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.

The number of reported incidents concerning aircraft safety on Australian aircraft has gone up considerably in the last five years, a new report has revealed.

With financial concerns about the Indian airline industry at an all-time high following the Jet Airways layoff fiasco, airline companies in India are now being asked by banks to pledge aircraft as collateral before getting loans approved. And that's not all, the companies may also be forced to pledge their future ticket sales and company shares too.

Virgin Atlantic, the airline based in the United Kingdom, has initiated an investigation into some of its crew members who allegedly criticised the carrier’s safety standards on social the networking website Facebook.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ordered that some Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines be inspected after a Pratt PW2037 engine on a Delta Air Lines jet failed during takeoff in Las Vegas, the United States, on August 6, 2008.

Ryanair accuses fuel supplier Air BP of profiteering, urges UK’s economic regulator to probe increased fuel costs

It all happened a bit too fast. Out of the blue, there was the announcement that Jet Airways and Kingfisher  were getting into an operational alliance to better manage costs in these times of crisis for the Indian and international aviation industry. A day later, we had Jet Airways ...

Just a day after the announcement of the Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways alliance, there was a shock for the employees of the two airlines.

Ryanair, the low-cost airline headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has been reprimanded by the Trade Ethical Council against Sexism in Advertising of Sweden, known by its Swedish initials ERK, for an advertisement campaign run by the airline featuring a scantily dressed woman posing as a schoolgirl.

The Conservative party in the United Kingdom has attracted widespread criticism for saying that, if elected to power, the party would scrap the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport and instead build a high-speed train link.

Singapore Airlines, the national airline of Singapore, has assured its customers that they need not worry about consuming dairy products made in China onboard the carrier’s flights since all items produced in China have been removed from the in-flight menu.

The United States-based United Airlines has decided to double the fee it charges some passengers to check a second bag, citing as reason the volatile prices of aviation turbine fuel.

A new kind of problem seems to be gathering storm in the air: Flight attendants with American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, have asked the company to filter its in-flight wireless internet service to block access to pornography and other websites which the workers believe are “inappropriate.”

Venezuela is cutting the number of flights it will allow United States-based airlines to operate to and from the country.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced new steps as well as 13 recommendations to enhance its supervision of aviation safety.

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The stern restrictions now in place on carrying liquids and gels in hand luggage on flights have been extended by another 5 yeas.

  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a warning on the security of airports in Venezuela. Compliance with standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is suspect, says US. 

The European Commission (EU) has begun an anti-trust investigation into a revenue-sharing pact signed between British Airways, American Airlines and Spain’s Iberia Airlines.

The chances of air passengers in the United States being bumped from an overbooked flight are likely to increase in the autumn of 2008 as more and more airlines are trimming down services in their efforts to get rid of unprofitable flights and inefficient planes.

Virgin Blue, the low-cost airline based in Australia, is on a collision course with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the international industry trade group of airlines.

Ryanair, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and the largest low-cost carrier in Europe, has announced that the carrier will only allow flights to be bought through its Ryanair.com website and that bookings made through third-party price comparison websites will not be honoured.

Adding another dimension to the beleaguered aviation industry, pilots are complaining that, in a desperate attempt to cut costs, airline companies are forcing them to fly “uncomfortably low on fuel,” thereby putting at risk the safety of passengers and crew.

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.

As more people point laser pointers at aircraft, more aircrafts and pilots are affected The Government of New Zealand is thinking about banning high-powered laser pointers after there has been a big increase in the number of people targeting the devices at aircraft, seriously affecting the vision of pilots.

It is only natural for one to assume that being inside an aircraft full of people could be an easy way to catch an infectious disease.

The European Commission has begun what it describes as an “in-depth investigation” into whether a loan amounting to €300 million ($465 million) from the government of Italy to the airline Alitalia violates rules on state aid.

Major airlines of Europe have urged the European Commission to oppose the Italian government's recent $468-million loan to Alitalia intended to prevent the state-controlled airline from going bankrupt.

In giving a quirky dimension to the fallout of the phenomenal costs of oil, the United States has threatened to take legal action against the United Kingdom over a planned increase in airline taxes.

The failure of the aviation industry worldwide in checking rising levels of carbon emissions could result in the “worst case scenario” for climate change, an unpublished study conducted by the world’s leading experts has warned.