Heathrow Airport in London has been voted the “worst airport in the world” for the second year in succession in a poll of 14,500 frequent-fliers.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is launching non-stop flights between Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state in India, four times a week from November 2009.

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 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).

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.

A business group has recommended that the British Aviation Authority (BAA), the owner of London’s Heathrow airport, scrap about 5,000 flights a year in order to relieve congestion.

The British government’s independent watchdog on sustainable development has asked that the government of the United Kingdom to “completely rethink” its aviation policy and shelve plans to expand Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport.