More than 50 people, including journalists, visited the Jilin branch of China Southern Airlines in Changchun, capital of Jilin province, during the company's open house on May 15 to learn about its operations.

Air Canada said it's in exclusive talks to buy one of the country's largest travel tour operators, Transat A.T., for about C$520 million (US$387 million) amid a wave of consolidation in the Canadian airline industry.

Airlines from July will be punished for abusing international air traffic rights as part of a major policy shift aimed at a more efficient use of scarce air routes, a civil aviation official said Wednesday.

China's biggest airlines are considering banding together to seek compensation from Boeing Co. for the disruption caused by the grounding of the U.S. aircraft manufacturer's 737 Max, people with knowledge of the matter said.

As Vietnam's aviation sector booms and passenger numbers rise at double-digit rates, local upstart Bamboo Airways is embracing what it hopes will be a novel way of standing out in a crowded market: Golf.

Southwest Airlines Co., which has tied all of its future growth to the grounded Boeing Co. 737 Max, says the aircraft's return to the skies this summer is still within reach.

Low-cost airlines, the pioneers of brief discomfort at bargain prices, have struggled to master long-haul flights. Now one of the world's most successful budget carriers is considering cut-price business class seats as a way into the Europe-Asia market.

Sexual harassment is rife in Germany's airline industry, according to a survey of cabin staff.

Viva Air, the Latin American group of carriers owned by a founder of Ireland's Ryanair Holdings Plc, has plans for a third airline in the region plus an initial public offering, to cash in on strong demand for discount air travel.

Middle Eastern carrier Etihad Airways has submitted a bid for a stake in India's Jet Airways, the unit of State Bank of India (SBI) overseeing the sale of the stricken airline said on Friday.