- China Amends Aviation Code to Allow More Flights[Oct. 30, 2007]
China's military has amended its aviation code for commercial aircraft to allow more flights in the holding spaces above airports.
- IATA Tips Dramatic Growth in Air Travel[Oct. 26, 2007]
About 2.75 billion passengers will take flights in 2011, an increase of 29 per cent on the total passenger traffic in 2006, industry body IATA says.
- Heathrow is Appalling: Qantas Chairman[Oct. 26, 2007]
Incoming Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford took a parting shot at London's Heathrow airport as he prepared to leave the city he has called home for the best part of a decade and return to Australia.
- CAAC Utters New Remedy Efforts for Flight Delay[Oct. 25, 2007]
China's civil aviation industry will introduce a large scale remedy efforts to deal with flight delays and related problems during a recently launched five-month campaign that aims to improve airline services in China, said an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on Oct. 24.
- Thousands of Air Passengers Affected as Heavy Fog Blankets Beijing[Oct. 26, 2007]
Thousands of passengers were left stranded and a demonstration flight of the new Airbus A380 superjumbo was among dozens of flights delayed or cancelled when thick fog blanketed Beijing's main airport on Oct. 26.
- China: Regional Aviation to Get US$133 Million Subsidies[Oct. 18, 2007]
The government will subsidize 1 billion yuan (US$133 million) for the development of regional aviation starting this year, said Yang Yuanyuan, Minister of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC), according to Oct. 17's People's Daily Online.
- ANA Flight Delayed by Passenger's Failure to Turn Off Mobile Phone[Oct. 17, 2007]
On Oct. 17, the departure of an All Nippon Airways flight from Nagasaki to Tokyo's Haneda airport was delayed by about 45 minutes because a passenger failed to switch off a mobile phone, ANA officials said.
- Air China Aims to Become "Super Carrier"[Oct. 15, 2007]
China's airline industry needs to spawn one or two "super-carriers" capable of competing with international airlines, the chairman of Air China Ltd said, indicating that the firm is leaving its options open in its bid to buy into rival China Eastern.
- UK: Watchdog Eyes Raised Airport Fees[Oct. 03, 2007]
The UK's Competition Commission has recommended raising the charges airlines pay to use Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
- US Government Seeks to Alleviate "Crisis of Flight Delays"[Oct. 01, 2007]
US air traffic congestion was given considerable attention recently in Washington, where lawmakers and Bush Administration officials are under increasing pressure to alleviate what Air Transport Assn. President and CEO James May called "an increasingly serious national crisis of flight delays."