Pakistan announced on Tuesday to reopen its airspace with immediate effect for civil aviation after over four-month long blockage following military tension with neighboring India, local media reported.

China's civil aviation watchdog is stepping up efforts to keep airlines on schedule amid a midsummer travel peak that coincides with frequent extreme weather, including storms and heavy rain.

The Federal Aviation Administration has reassigned three managers in its office overseeing Southwest Airlines Co, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.

Greece needs to invest to ensure the viability of its air traffic management system and recruit more air traffic controllers to reduce delays during the summer period, executives from global airlines body IATA said on Tuesday.

Flights of Georgian airlines to Russia will be suspended from July 8, Russian Transport Ministry said Saturday, amid rising unrest in the Caucasus country.

A Kenyan parliamentary committee on Tuesday recommended nationalising Kenya Airways as part of an effort to turn around the loss-making airline.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Thursday that all safety concerns must be resolved before the Boeing 737 Max planes resume operation.

Air travel is set to get costlier in India from July 1 as the Union Government has decided to hike the aviation security fee (ASF), an official order said.

On May 14, the Strategic Cooperation Symposium & Signing Ceremony between Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences was held in Beijing. Feng Zhenglin, Administrator of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) signed the strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of the two sides. Deputy CAAC Administrator Lyu Erxue and Vice President of CAS Zhang Yaping attended the signing ceremony.

Recently, CAAC officially issued the Measures for the Monitoring and Management of International Air Traffic Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Measures), which specifies that the routes and flights management system will be used to monitor and assess the use of international air traffic rights by air transport enterprises, so as to establish an effective in-process monitoring and restraint mechanism to continuously improve the efficiency of the use of international air traffic right resources and regulate the order of the international air transport market. The Measures will be effective on July 1.