Airline News

CHINA Eastern Airlines today launched a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Group to boost its online ticket sales.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Houston-based Continental Airlines is among three companies that face a total fine of $175,000 for the stranding of passengers overnight on an airport tarmac in Rochester, Minn., this summer.

Though fliers grumble about delays, cancellations and luggage fees, several airlines get gold stars for performance from fliers in a survey released Tuesday.

US Airways said Tuesday it will delay delivery of 54 Airbus jets until at least 2013 as it tries to bolster its financial strength.

A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50% biokerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using biofuel.

An airliner using a 50 percent biofuel mix in one engine has successfully completed a demonstration flight in the Netherlands.

Ruehl Bulan perches on the left rear exit of a United Airlines jet and flings seat cushions, three at a time, into the chilly October night.

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh warned his cabin crew Monday that he will not compromise on cost-cutting measures ahead of possible strike action next month.

Southwest Airlines and TDC officials met in Dallas on Wednesday to ink an agreement that will put local bed-tax muscle behind the low-cost carrier's efforts to market the allure of Bay County and its beaches.

WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it will push back the launch of its new loyalty program into next year due to the ongoing issues it has faced relating to the implementation of its new reservation system last month.

A glitch in the computer system that processes U.S. flight plan data was causing delays in the United States but there were no safety issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday.

Delta Air Lines Inc. upped the ante Wednesday in the battle for Japan Airlines, saying the Atlanta-based carrier and its SkyTeam partners would provide $1 billion to financially troubled JAL.

United Airlines flight attendant members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO joined members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants at American Airlines on the picket line at airports around the country Wednesday.

The first Air France A380 superjumbo took off from Paris on Friday, bound for New York with 380 passengers who had bid a total $450,000 in a charity auction organized by the airline.

Mesaba Airlines is asking for a federal subsidy to offer three daily flights from Tupelo Regional Airport.

Discount carrier AirTran Airways, a unit of AirTran Holdings Inc., said Friday that it will offer double reward credits to all of its frequent flier club members when they travel between Milwaukee and any AirTran destination through Feb.

Air France-KLM has announced plans to cut 1,700 jobs by asking workers to take voluntary redundancy.

UAL Corp., US Airways Group Inc., and eight other companies paid executives $350 million in the five years before the United States was forced to take over their underfunded employee pension plans, a government report said.

Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it will require uncontested candidates for its board of directors to win a majority among shareholder votes cast to be elected, instead of just a plurality.