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The additional aircraft would be mainly for the market in India, where it expects its new affiliate, AirAsia India, to launch in the fourth quarter.

The first search by federal agents in tan jumpsuits was comparatively unobtrusive, a brief delay in Oklahoma that all but passed from Gabriel Silverstein's mind by the time he landed in Iowa City four days later, on May 5. That fuel stop, one of many made during a business trip from New Jersey to California and back in the Cirrus SR22 that ... (more)

United Airlines will offer lie-flat seats on all international long-haul flights from New York.

A British Airways flight from London to Oslo made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport Friday morning after a fire broke out shortly after takeoff.

BA said the Heathrow to Oslo service turned back after a technical fault at about 09:00 BST.

A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday morning after developing a technical fault, the airline said.

Heathrow said that all passengers and crew had been safely evacuated from the plane following the incident at about 9am on Friday.

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smouldering batteries.

Things are really starting to take off! Three additional aircraft have been added to the impressive array of aircraft "coming in for a landing" at the Great Lakes International Air Show at the St.

A worker loads a container holding ceramic matrix composites components inside a high-pressure autoclave for curing.

AIR Pacific's second Airbus christened Island of Namuka-i-Lau landed yesterday at the Nadi International Airport in another historic achievement for Fiji's aviation industry.

Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced today.

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.

A PLANE purpose built to transport a shuttle for the Soviet space programme landed in Shannon Airport this week, drawing gasps from the large numbers of plane-spotters awaiting its arrival.

The great recession has been tough on light aircraft manufacturers. Deliveries of single-engine piston planes have plunged from 2,097 in 2007 to just 817 last year , according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association .

Tributes have been paid to a man killed when the light aircraft he was flying in flipped on a North Wales runway.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner, center, at a news conference in Tokyo in March.

Malawi's luxury presidential jet, bought by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika, has been sold for $15-million to raise cash for the impoverished African country, a government official said on Wednesday.

"We would be perfectly willing, if we had a total moratorium on narrow-body and wide-body financing, to forego" export credit help on narrow-body jet purchases from Bombardier

Virgin Atlantic announced the increase in capacity of more than a third after it confirmed it would use a Boeing 747 plane for its 2014 programme.