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Cooperation Key to Meeting Challenges in the Gulf Region

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called upon all parts of the aviation value chain in the Gulf region to work together on issues critical to aviation’s ability to serve as a catalyst for economic growth. Avia...


GOL Announces New Organizational Structure

GOL announces that Ricardo Khauaja, the Vice President of Customers and Market, is leaving the Company GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., the largest low-fare, low-cost airline in Latin America, announces that Ricardo Khauaj...



Royal Brunei Airlines Emergency Landing of Flight BI098

While air travel is one of the safest mode of transportation, emergencies do occur sometimes and on April 15, 2012, a Royal Brunei Airlines flight had a hiccup. Here’s what was posted on the airline’s blog about the incident:...


Tornado Hits Boeing Fuselage Supplier

A Spirit Aerosystems manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas that makes fuselages for Boeing planes was shut down after a tornado damaged roofs and knocked out power, a Spirit spokesman said. “We do believe that the maj...



Virgin To Challenge EU Approval Of IAG’s bmi Bid

    Virgin Atlantic Airways said it would appeal a European Union decision to approve British Airways owner IAG’s takeover of British airline bmi, which Virgin had sought to buy itself. The European Commission a...


Air Canada Flights To Return To Normal Saturday

Air Canada expects to resume normal operations on Saturday, after the CIRB declared a strike by pilots at the country’s biggest airline as illegal. The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the Air Canada Pilots Assoc...