Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has hit out at proposed amendments to airline laws in Australia. He said the changes were likely to mean a reduction in services and could force the flag carrier to dispose of its budget Jetstar brand. The pro-Australia airline bills being proposed by a Senate committee include amending the laws [...]

Following an announcement at the beginning of the year by the China Air Transport Association that its members were not in support of the emissions trading scheme introduced by the EU, the Chinese authorities have now banned all of the country’s airlines from participating. They have also been told that there will be no new [...]

Experts have warned the government that a new airport in the Thames Estuary would put aircraft landing and taking off in danger of bird strikes. The last time that ministers proposed building a new hub in the south-east, a study showed that there was a significant chance that a passenger jet could be brought down [...]

Aberdeen Airport has announced that it will be investing £45 million over the next decade in improving and expanding its terminal. Through 2012, £4.5 million will be spent providing increased capacity and improved passenger services to the main building. Other projects over the next 10 years include expanding the international arrivals area, which will cost [...]

A body representing airlines in China has said that the country’s largest carriers will refuse to pay a new carbon tax which was imposed by the European Union at the beginning of this year. The emissions trading scheme requires all airlines flying to or from airports in Europe to pay a levy to offset the [...]

As it continues to recover from bankruptcy, Japan Airlines has reportedly said that it is planning to release shares worth up to 1 trillion yen as it relists on the stock exchange in Tokyo. A sale of this size would turn JAL into one of the biggest listed airlines on the planet. At the beginning [...]

Following a European Court of Justice ruling that an emissions tax on airlines flying to and from destinations across Europe is legal, the US has called on the International Civil Aviation Organisation to examine the issue. Carriers in China, Canada and the US have consistently rejected the idea of having to pay a European Union imposed [...]

Although travel firms and airlines have been asking the government to abolish Air Passenger Duty, the controversial tax on flights, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that it will be increased in April next year, as originally planned. Details of the APD hike will be released in December, but carriers are predicting that it will go [...]

American Eagle Airlines has been told by the Department of Transportation that it will have to pay a fine of $900,000 after hundreds of passengers were stranded for more than three hours on the tarmac in Chicago earlier in the year. The delays affected 15 flights after they landed at O’Hare International on 29 May. [...]

Boeing has, at last, witnessed the first commercial flight of its long delayed 787 Dreamliner. The All Nippon Airlines flight was between Tokyo and Hong Kong, carrying a select group of passengers. The planemaker had originally planned to have the Dreamliner in service by 2008, but has been hit by a raft of setbacks, including [...]