A tie up between American Airlines and Qantas for transpacific routes has been given the go-ahead from Australia’s competition watchdog. The news comes as a breath of fresh air for the Qantas, which is facing a wrath of criticism and industrial action following last week’s announcement of major restructuring plans that involves the loss of [...]

Strong demand for commercial airliners has meant better than expected first-half sales for EADS, the European aerospace giant. The company is celebrating a particularly high demand for its Airbus models. At the Paris Air Show recently, EADS described the number of orders as record breaking. In the six months sales were up by eight per [...]

An order for 460 new aircraft has been placed by American Airlines with European planemaker Airbus and US manufacturer Boeing. Although the precise details of the deal are still to be revealed, it is worth many billions of dollars. The order is to be split between the companies with 260 new A320 aircraft coming from [...]

Strike action by UK Border Agency staff seems to be having little effect on passengers at airports around the country. Passport control queues at Gatwick and Heathrow are currently moving at speeds which conform to targets set by the Home Office, and Manchester Airport said that only passengers on trans-Atlantic flights were being delayed. UKBA [...]

Tuesday saw an American Airlines flight immediately return to Dallas-Fort Worth airport after takeoff due to striking several birds. Lynn Lunsford from the US Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that pilots from AA flight 880 immediately requested an emergency landing shortly after departure at 6:16pm local time, when numerous birds struck one of [...]

Australia’s competition regulator has given Qantas and American Airlines a green light for joint venture for flights between Australia and the Untied States. The new agreement between American Airlines and Qantas will see the two carriers coordinate transpacific routes to and from hubs around Australia, New Zealand and North America. According to the ACCC, the [...]

When former British Airways boss Willie Walsh announced that International Airlines Group – the company formed by the flag carrier’s alliance with Iberia – would be actively seeking to merge with or buy other airlines, Qantas was presumed to be somewhere near the top of the list. Discussions between the two collapsed in 2008 when, [...]

Passengers on Singapore Airlines and American Airlines can soon enjoy the latest in-flight entertainment. American Airlines announced this week that its forthcoming units would enable passengers to stream television programmes and films to tablet devices and mobile phones during long-haul flights, as opposed to watching them on seatback monitors. The scheme is likely to prove [...]

Expedia.com and American Airlines have ended a standoff over booking systems and fees. The new agreement between the two travel giants means that American Airlines’ flights are once again available on Expedia’s booking website. The news follows a three-month dispute following AA’s announcement that it would no longer use the central booking engine utilised by [...]

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has revealed that US authorities are seeking several new suspects in connection with the September 11th attacks. According to the recently published cables, the FBI is looking for three men from Qatar that had supported the plotters via conducting surveillance. Three weeks before the attacks, the men had flown to New York [...]