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Virgin America, the low-cost airline based in California, the United States, is teaming up with YouTube for the YouTube Live – YouTube’s first official “real-world user event” on November 22, 2008.

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.

American Airlines Cargo Division (AA Cargo), a division of American Airlines, has announced its decision to participate in the launch of the United States air cargo industry’s e-freight initiative, which supports a move toward paperless documentation.

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.

Airlines based in the United States could save as much as $10 billion a year in fuel costs by 2025 if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the US, upgrades air-traffic control from the radar-based system to a satellite-based one.

The European Union (EU) has decided to press countries outside the alliance to include aviation in their existing or future schemes meant to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases.

American Airlines, the largest United States-based carrier, has decided to filter pornographic websites on in-flight internet service.

A group of major airlines and Boeing Company, the aircraft manufacturer, have joined hands to accelerate the development of new, sustainable aviation fuels.

Maldivian, the national carrier of Maldives, has deployed technology company IBS Software’s Passenger Service System aiRES in the Software as a Service (SaaS) mode to help itself manage its passenger reservations, inventory control, fares & ticketing, and departure control functions. 

Air New Zealand, the national flag carrier of New Zealand, has shown the way in saving fuel, cutting flying time as well as curbing harmful carbon emissions.

The jet fuel using algae produced by Solazyme Incorporated, the company based in South San Francisco, California, the United States, has passed all the tests required for aviation turbine fuel.

I don't know about you, but for me, this does it. The ElectraFlyer C, an electric ultralight plane available now if you want to plonk down 21000 $ max, bang it all up together, and take it on a relatively silent 2 hour flight.

ICON Aircraft revealed the ICON A5 amphibious personal sport plane at the AirVenture 2008 event at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The full-scale test prototype of the ICON A5 was displayed at the event.

Airline behemoth Virgin Atlantic has signed in as the latest customer of SkyChain, an end-to-end IT cargo management system developed by Dubai-based business technology provider Mercator.

An unprecedented malfunction in the computer software of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has caused delay of hundreds of flights at airports across the United States from Texas to New York. 

Aiming at providing shippers with the highest standard of service, Emirates SkyCargo has teamed up with a leading US research institute to develop a ground breaking new product for the shipment of temperature-sensitive cargo.

Nine years of arduous research, aided by advanced DNA testing and forensic techniques, has led to identifying a man whose “mummified” hand and arm were found in a glacier in Alaska.

Dubai-based business technology provider Mercator's airline passenger interline revenue accounting solution christened RAPID has been picked by Canada's leading high-value low-cost airline WestJet. With this deal, Mercator has secured yet another North American customer. WestJet has signed up for Mercator’s RAPID Bureau Interline Solution hosted in Dubai. The benefits of outsourced ...

Leading private airline Kingfisher Airlines has successfully started using IBS Software’s iCargoNet, a new-generation airline Cargo Management System.

SriLankan Airlines has signed up for SkyChain, the end to end cargo reservation and business management solution offered by Mercator, the Dubai-based business technology provider, part of the Emirates Group. SriLankan Airlines is the flag carrier of Sri Lanka and currently flies to over 30 international destinations.

As a part of the efforts by airlines to attract customers in the time of exorbitant fuel prices and economic slowdown, Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, will start offering broadband internet service on its entire domestic mainline fleet from October 2008.

Kerala-based IBS Software Services, a leading provider of new-generation IT solutions to the global travel, transportation and logistics space, has signed an agreement to provide AvientCrew, its crew management solution to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the national airline of The Netherlands.

Taking its cargo solutions to a broader plane, IBS, the Kerala, India-based global provider of software solutions to travel tourism and logistics players, has taken its iCargo Cargo Terminal Operations module to the Tokyo International Air Cargo Terminal Ltd (TIACT).

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

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.

Five airlines operating in Europe are currently carrying out trials on use of mobile phone in-flight.

Frontier Airlines and First Data Corporation have entered into an agreement regarding continued processing of Frontier Airlines’ Visa and MasterCard charges without any interruption.

Around 240 member-airlines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have done away with paper tickets and switched to total e-ticketing.

In a shocking finding, aviation regulators of the European Union have found that websites selling airline tickets are misleading 1 in 3 European travellers.