MACQUARIE Airports said yesterday that earnings at the second-largest field in its portfolio, Brussels International Airport, rose 18 per cent last year.

VIRGIN Blue could be forced to pay millions of dollars in back pay to ground staff who failed to receive shift allowances.

FAA yesterday said it has saved $1.4 million in overtime expenses and achieved a 75% reduction in operational errors at the troubled New York Terminal Radar Approach Control facility since reasserting authority over scheduling practices and taking a more hands-on management approach there (ATWOnline, June 3, 2005).

Airbus is to send one of the A380 test aircraft to the Asian Aerospace air show in Singapore next month and will have it flying in the full livery of national carrier and launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA).

News from Travel Technology Update: AirTran, which dropped out of Worldspan in November because the two companies could not come to terms on the cost of participation, is back in the GDS with a new multiyear, full content agreement, effect Jan. 24.

Alitalia looks set to face a withering week of wildcat strikes, as unions took aim at CEO Giancarlo Cimoli and his cost-cutting plan to rebuild Italy's largest airline.

Turboprop manufacturer ATR has revealed its year-end order figures in Paris today and has emerged joint top of the regional aircraft sales league for 2005 with Embraer.

Russian airframer Sukhoi's civil aviation division has signed a definitive agreement with the Snecma-NPO Saturn joint venture PowerJet for supply of the SaM146 engines to be installed on the newly-developed Russian Regional Jet (RRJ).

Bombardier completed first flight of the Challenger 605 large cabin business jet yesterday at the airframer's facilities at Montreal Trudeau international airport.

Boeing will invest USD$185 million in facilities in India and source 85 billion rupees (USD$1.94 billion) in products and services over a period of 10 years, India's civil aviation minister said on Wednesday.