Airbus Industrie is likely to put off delivery of one or two of the 13 Airbus A380 Superjumbo aircraft, earlier scheduled for 2009, till January 2010.

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.

For the first time, four major airlines of the world have joined hands to support a global scheme to check carbon emissions from the aviation industry. 

Air France-KLM, the biggest airline in Europe, has suffered losses in the three months to December 2008, which it blamed on the global economic recession.

The Air France-KLM Group, based in Paris, France, has reached an agreement to buy 25% shares of Alitalia, the flag-carrier airline of Italy, the Italian media quoted sources as revealing.

Air France, the biggest airline of Europe, will discontinue from November 6, 2008, its flights between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the United States, and London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR).

Four major airlines of the world – Lufthansa, Air Berlin, Air France-KLM and American Airlines – have raised passenger fuel surcharges in the wake record-high prices of aviation fuel.