At least eight people were injured when a PIA passenger plane made an emergency landing due to bad weather at the Rawalpindi airport in Pakistan Friday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Ary.

The Sunshine Coast Airport says it is negotiating with Tiger Airways to resume flights to Maroochydore.

Some forty Adelaide-based Tiger Airways workers will have to move to Melbourne if they want to continue working for the airline.

Air Mauritius on Thursday posted a pretax loss for its first quarter of EUR11.1 million versus a loss of EUR11.3 million loss a year earlier, and blamed low season and high fuel prices.

Ambulances and fire appliances were sent to the George Best Belfast City Airport after a plane developed a "technical fault" while in-flight.

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. provided details Thursday of its plans to spin off its in-house regional carrier to shareholders later this year, a divestiture aimed at reducing the parent company's costs.

Growth in the aviation industry and liberalisation of regulations will make Asia the "new nucleus" for world air travel, said the head of Etihad Airways.

Boeing and Cathay Pacific Airways today announced the Hong Kong-based carrier has ordered eight Boeing 777 Freighters and four 777-300ER(extended range) airplanes. The order is valued at US$3.3 billion at list prices. With this announcement, Cathay Pacific becomes the 15th customer to order the 777 Freighter and increases its Boeing 777-300ER fleet to 50.

Australian carrier Skywest Airlines today took delivery of its first ATR 72-500, which is also the very first ATR 72 aircraft in Australia. Skywest Airlines will operate its new ATR fleet on behalf of Virgin Australia, as part of a 10-year agreement signed recently between both airlines to create a regional network for Virgin Australia. Today's first delivery follows the signature of a contract for 4 ATR 72-500s and 4 ATR 72-600s, plus 5 options, inked earlier this year between ATR and the leasing company Avation PLC. The remaining 3 ATR 72-500s will be delivered this year, while the 4 ATR 72-600s will enter into service in 2012. All of these ATR 72s will wear the new white and red livery of Virgin Australia.

U.S. airline system traffic continued to grow in May from the same month of 2010, according to the preliminary data released by U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday.