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The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch is to investigate the crash on Wednesday this week of the world’s largest aircraft, the Airlander 10. On only its second UK test flight, at the end of the test flight the aircraft ‘nosedived’ at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, extensively damaging the cockpit, though fortunately nobody was injured. During the

The European Commission’s (EC) investigation into Etihad’s acquisition of a 49% stake in Air Serbia which occurred on August 1, 2013 has concluded it is totally compliant with all EU regulations according to results delivered on July 8. Etihad has a substantial portfolio of equity alliances, including Alitalia (49%), Air Seychelles (40%), Darwin Airline (34%),

Subsequent to the recent decision by Denver International Airport to select a consortium led by Ferrovial Airports to privatize the airport’s Great Hall, a judge in Barcelona, Spain has decided to try those associated with a kickbacks scheme where it is alleged that Ferrovial paid money to influence the awarding of public contracts. It has

91% OF 8,800 British Airways members of British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), a section of the UK’s largest trade union, Unite, have voted for industrial action if the carrier continues with its plans to enforce a newly introduced staff performance system. Aside from pointing out that the current system works fairly for all

The French noise abatement authority, Autorité de Contrôle des Nuisances Sonores Aéroportuaires (ACNUSA), took strong steps against Warsaw-based Enter Air to recover unpaid fines relating to noise disturbance at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport levied between 2013 and 2014. According to records, the Polish airline owed €1.103 million in unpaid noise disturbance fines pertaining to

Two weeks after an Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash landed at Dubai Airport, a Qatar Airways A330 has been forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport after suffering what is understood to have been a “bird strike” on Thursday. The incident occurred shortly after the flight, codenamed QR240, took off for Doha at

In light of a number of fires onboard aircraft which have been attributed to ignition of lithium batteries, in a joint letter to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Transport, the International Air Transport Association, directors of Civil Aviation and the world’s largest lithium battery manufacturing and export countries, IATA, PRBA, the US Rechargeable Battery

Despite every effort, Dublin-based Norwegian Air International (NAI) has still failed to persuade the US authorities to issue a permit to enable it to fly transatlantic routes to America. This failure by the US authorities could have the potential to damage the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The continued delays come despite

Tourist numbers in Turkey are continuing to fall amidst political unrest and terrorism threats. While the year-on-year figure for May revealed a drop of 34.7%, June’s year-on-year figure stands at 40.86%, which will equate to an approximate loss of revenue from tourism of US$8 billion if the year’s overall reduction in tourist numbers averages out