Komal Singh, an airhostess with Air India, has been issued a charge sheet for breaking the airline’s conduct rule. Singh had filed a complaint against two pilots in the same airline for molesting her.

The licences of the two airline pilots have been suspended after the incident in which they not only overflew their destination – the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport – a week ago but also was out of contact with the air traffic control (ATC) for about 80 minutes in spite of repeated calls from the ATC tower.

A leading advocate of the rights of airline passenger has sued Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, for allegedly hacking her e-mail accounts and personal computer.

Emirates Airlines, the national airline of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has refuted a report that appeared in an Australian newspaper that the airline is “putting profits before safety” concerning the management of its pilots’ fatigue risk.

As study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has added impetus to the need to pass the airline passenger Bill (or, the tarmac delay Bill) in the United States Congress.

The government of the United States has sued United Airlines alleging that the airline failed to place workers, who became disabled, into other jobs they still could do.

Air France’s Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, 2009, might have flown into updrafts that shook the plane and also into lightning, which together contributed in knocking the plane out of the sky, according to aviation experts.

Investigators of the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have blamed the maintenance workers of American Airlines for the emergency landing of Flight 1400 at Lambert-St Louis International Airport in St Louis, Missouri, the United States, on September 28, 2007.

Aircraft maker Airbus has admitted to spying on its staff from 2005 to 2007 in Germany as a part of a campaign to uncover potential corruption.

Air New Zealand says it would be forced to cancel 25 regional services because of air traffic controllers’ lunch break.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Israel’s Transportation Ministry has said that the European Union does not intend to downgrade the safety rating of Israeli airlines following talks held in Brussels between the officials of the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) and a representative of the European Union over the flight safety of overseas carriers.

New flights will be from Manila and Caticlan in Philippines to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver

Southwest Airlines, the low-fare airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, has agreed to pay a $7.5 million in penalties for a series of serious maintenance lapses.

Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, who successfully landed a stricken plane of the US Airways in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009, is sad about the state of the airline industry which he said was “in disarray.”

The European Commission has initiated an investigation into allegations that Deutsche Lufthansa, the flag-carier airline of Germany, may not have paid enough to buy Austrian Airlines, the flag carrier of Austria.

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, had to inspect and begin follow-up action in order to bring its fleet of about 270 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft into full compliance with the safety rules after mistakes in maintenance led to damage of the passenger-evacuation slides on the rear of many MD-80 jets.

A federal appeals court of the United States has ruled that the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) incorrectly increased annual fees that it imposes on airlines for screening of passengers and property.

The European Union (EU) is investigating whether the proposed takeover of Brussels Airlines, the largest airline in Belgium, by Lufthansa AG, the flag-carrier airline of Germany, violates “fair and open competition” in the airline sector leading to a monopoly on some routes.

It has been revealed that the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had ordered stringent inspection of the type of engines on the US Airways plane that splash-landed in New York's Hudson River after a few of those engines were found to have a rare kind of stall problem known as "compression stall."

The controversy and protests regarding building a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport took a new turn with protestors buying the land meant for the new runway.

  The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think-tank based in London, the United Kingdom, has opposed the plan to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport saying that the proposed runway will be a “white elephant” unless aviation is made “greener.” 

Air-India, the state-run carrier of India, has dismissed 10 airhostesses for being “exceptionally overweight.”

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, and the Transport Workers Union of America, the union representing thousands of ground workers, have jointly requested the services of a mediator through the National Mediation Board to resolve issues regarding wage and benefit that have remained undecided after 11 days of negotiations.

The Commerce Commission of New Zealand, the country’s competition watchdog, has launched legal action against 13 airlines and 7 individuals for alleged price-fixing and “extensive and long-term cartel activity in the air-cargo market.”

The Federal Court of Australia has fined Qantas Airways, Australia’s national airline, Australian $20 million (US $13.1 million) after the airline admit that it engaged in price-fixing linked to international cargo fuel surcharges.

Lawmakers of Argentina have approved a draft Bill to seize back Aerolíneas Argentinas, the largest domestic and international airline in Argentina and also the country’s flag carrier, and its domestic subsidiary Austral airline from its present owners, the Spanish group Marsans.

Canada’s highest court has upheld a ruling that obese and disabled people have the right to two seats for the price of one seat on domestic flights.

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.