Aircraft News

New Delhi: Air India on Wednesday filed a contempt petition against striking pilots in the Delhi High Court on grounds that the agitators have failed to comply with its previous order restraining them from undertaking the stir.

Delta Air Lines is adding a new plane to its fleet. It's taking the Boeing 717s that Southwest Airlines got when it bought AirTran.

The first Boeing 787 made in South Carolina goes up for a test flight this week.

United Airlines started selling tickets for its first 787 flights on Tuesday, saying it plans to start service between Denver and Tokyo on March 31.

A passenger who claimed to have a device surgically implanted inside her triggered the security scare that led to the diversion of a North Carolina-bound jetliner Tuesday, federal officials said.

Delta Air Lines plans to add 88 Boeing 717s to its fleet, picking up planes that Southwest Airlines didn't want anymore.

A US Airways jetliner flying from Paris to Charlotte, N.C., has been diverted to Maine because of what an airline spokesman describes as a "security issue." A person briefed on the incident said a passenger announced she had a surgically implanted device.

CEO Jeff Parker says in a statement that the company is in shock after losing two pilots in unrelated accidents in less than 100 days.

The aircraft was delivered to the South Korean air force base at Gimhae, where the type will be stationed, Boeing said in a statement.

The results of a more-than-year-long Senate investigation into counterfeit parts being used in U.S. military equipment were released Monday and -- as they had from the start -- investigators are putting most of the blame on China.

The relay, which began on Aug. 24, 2011 in Cape Spear, N.L., ends in Vancouver Tuesday, May 22 and fully recreated the original Man In Motion cross-country tour, spanning 12,000 kilometres coast-to-coast. About 7,000 medal-bearers took part, collectively covering an average of 40 to 80 km a day.

QANTAS has signalled it will eventually close its aircraft maintenance base at Avalon Airport, leading to yet more job losses.

A new post from MSNBC shows that 4,551 people were killed while on the job in the U.S. in 2009.

Airbus Military has revealed the fifth Airbus A330 to be converted under the UK's Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme will be modified at its Getafe site, near Madrid, and not by Cobham Aviation Services as previously planned.

Budget airline Ryanair reported record profits Monday as its recession-resistant business model continued to attract passengers from higher-fare carriers amid Europe's debt crisis.

A foundry operator at Precision Castparts pours an element into molten metal alloy to make it even hotter so that it will completely expand and grow into the mold.

A confrontation early Wednesday morning that may have begun at a Pembroke Pines nightclub ended with one man dead and another injured in a Hollywood neighborhood, according to police.

Qantas is expected to announce it is shedding more than 400 jobs in its engineering department as it closes down its heavy maintenance base at Tullamarine Airport.

Fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Bennett, of Camarillo, died on impact when the privately owned Hawker Hunter jet trainer went down near Naval Base Ventura County, according to Craig Stevens, a senior deputy Ventura County medical examiner.

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