A Delta Air Lines jet en route to San Diego from Detroit sits at a remote area of Albuquerque International Support in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, May 8, 2011.
Crew members and passengers wrestled a 28-year-old man to the cabin floor after he began pounding on the cockpit as an American Airlines flight was approaching San Francisco, the third security incident in a day on U.S. planes, authorities said Monday.
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Air India's flight operations are slowly returning to normal this weekend after pilots ended a 10-day strike that cost the ailing airline millions of dollars in revenues.
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French officials say recovery teams have retrieved a second body from the wreckage of an Air France plane which crashed over the Atlantic in 2009, killing all on board.
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There were no survivors from the crash of an Indonesian passenger aircraft into the sea with up to 27 people on board, a navy officer says.
The plane went into the sea in poor weather just short of the airstrip serving the small port town of Kaimana, in the eastern province of West Papua.
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Air Canada Inc. narrowed its quarterly operating loss as higher passenger revenue helped offset a big rise in fuel costs, sending its shares up around 4 per cent.
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Qatar Airways is in advanced negotiations to place a giant order for 60 airliners built by the European firm Airbus, the Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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Pinnacle Airlines Corp.’s first quarter profits suffered from winter conditions paired with the moving cost of a subsidiary acquired in 2010.
The Memphis-based regional airline holding company reported a net loss of $3 million in first quarter 2011, down from net income of $1.7 million in the same year-ago quarter.
Pinnacle’s loss per share was 16 cents in the quarter compared to a profit of 9 cents in first quarter 2010.
Pinnacle (NASDAQ: PNCL) incurred $5.8 million in integration, severance and contract implementation costs in the quarter due to moving Mesaba Aviation Inc.’s headquarters from Minneapolis to Memphis, among other factors.
“Winter storms throughout our system affected our operations during the first quarter, causing cancellations and delays for our customers,” Don Breeding, the company’s interim CEO, said. “We also began moving forward with our integration plans during the quarter, which will ultimately lead to an operationally and financially stronger company for our customers, employees and shareholders.”
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Ryanair’s latest additional charge – a £2 fee that it says will go towards compensation it has paid for flight delays and cancellations – could earn it up to £150 million in a year. That is nearly twice what the airline says it has paid out – almost £88 million – as a result of claims made following disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud, heavy snow and a series of French and Spanish strikes.
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Flybe blamed the failure to hit its forecast on a recent slowdown in consumer spending on air travel and high oil prices Photo: PA
Shares in Britain's biggest domestic airline dropped 57½ to 172½p on Thursday after it said it now expected full-year profits for the 12 months to March of £22m, some £2m short of analyst expectations.
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International Airlines Group, recently formed from the merger of British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia, announced a first-quarter net profit on Friday of 33 million euros (£29.3 million).
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A TERRIFYING mid-air mishap has been caught on camera. Videos posted on YouTube by witnesses show a plane lurching wildly out of control in the skies close to Moscow.
The Tupolev plane, used by defence forces, is seen twisting from side to side uncontrollably before pilots manage to land it safely at a military aerodrome outside Moscow.
Luckily no passengers were onboard at the time, and Russian military prosecutors have launched an investigation into the incident.
"The military prosecutors have launched a probe which should establish the reasons for the mid-air incident that almost led to an aviation disaster,'' a spokesman for the chief military prosecutor's office told the RIA Novosti news agency.
The Tu-154 plane, dating back to the 1960s, was dubbed the "dancing plane'' by bloggers.
The spokesman for the chief military prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti that the plane's steering system had malfunctioned and praised the pilots for managing to land safely in a built-up area.
"During a test flight, the steering system broke down on the TU-154B-2 plane belonging to the Defence Ministry's 800th air base,'' the spokesman said.
"Thanks to the great professionalism and supreme skill of the pilots, the crew managed to land on the second attempt at Chkalovsk aerodrome, avoiding casualties among the airforce and the local population.''
The video posted on April 30, which has been watched more than 380,000 times, says that the plane was being flown for the first time after a 10-year break.
The ageing Tupolev 154 planes, first flown in 1968 and used by Aeroflot until 2009, have been involved in a number of air accidents in recent years.
The aircraft's last major fatal crash was on April last year, when a Tu-154 carrying Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other top officials came down in fog near the Russian city of Smolensk.
In September a Tu-154 plane made a miraculous emergency landing on a derelict airstrip in the remote Komi region after its electrical systems failed midflight
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American Airlines is testing technology that lets passengers watch streaming video of movies and TV shows on their own Internet-capable devices. The airline said Tuesday that it's testing the service on two Boeing 767 aircraft used on cross-country trips. Customer testing will begin early this summer. American will then offer the service more broadly starting this fall.
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