BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares in Cathay Pacific Airways (0293.HK) fell more than 4% to close to a 10-year low on Monday after the Hong Kong flag carrier became caught in crosswinds between Beijing and pro-democracy groups in the Asian financial hub. Inc... More »
Airbus SE (AIR.PA) on Wednesday opened its Chinese completion plant for A330 jets, with hopes that an increased presence in the world's fastest growing aviation market would help boost demand for the firm's profitable but ageing wide-body jets. More »
Aerospace supplier United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) has struck a $30 billion agreement to buy avionics and interiors maker Rockwell Collins Inc (COL.N), the companies said on Monday, in a deal that bulks up UTC's power with plane makers by creating one of the ... More »
Saudi Arabia's state carrier said on Sunday it had been unable to send planes to transport Qatari pilgrims to the kingdom because it had been unable to get permission to land at Doha airport amid a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. More »
FILE PHOTO: An Etihad Airways Boeing 777-3FX aircraft takes off at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, France, August 9, 2016. Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Tuesday it was helping Australian Federal Police with an investigation that police began into... More »
A traveler walks past a sign for Royal Jordanian airline at JFK International Airport in New York, U.S., March 21, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Royal Jordanian and Kuwait Airways are the latest Middle East carriers to be exempted from an in-cabin ban on laptops... More »
Canada’s Exchange Income Corp said on Wednesday it was aware of a “short and distort campaign” aimed at undermining the value of the company’s shares. More »
FILE PHOTO – An illustration picture shows a laptop on the screen of an X-ray security scanner, April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic/Illustration/File Photo A three-month-old ban on taking electronic devices such as laptops onto aircraft cabins on flights f... More »
FILE PHOTO: Emirates aircraft are seen at Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Ashraf Mohammad/File Photo Emirates [EMIRA.UL], the Middle East’s largest airline, said on Wednesday the in-cabin ban on laptops and other large e... More »
FILE PHOTO: Passengers wait for check-in U.S. bound flights at a Turkish Airlines counter at Ataturk International airport in Istanbul, Turkey, March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS) expects a ban on carrying electronic devices in cabi... More »
FILE PHOTO: Logo of Israeli defence electronics firm Elbit Systems is seen at their offices in Haifa, Israel February 26, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT.TA), (ESLT.O) is moving quickly to innovat... More »
A man stands alongside the damaged engine of a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A330 aircraft on the tarmac at Sydney International Airport in Australia, June 12, 2017, after it made an emergency landing with a damaged engine. REUTERS/Jason Reed A China Eastern f... More »
A Lion Air plane taxis after landing at Denpassar international airport in Bali March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air may be an inaugural customer for a new Boeing Co (BA.N) plane that will become the largest member of its 737... More »
Passengers jumped from a plane at a rural Australian airport on Tuesday when a threatening note, which turned out to be a hoax, was found in the bathroom, police and media said, a day after a siege in Melbourne which police are treating as terrorism. More »
Oscar Munoz, chief executive of United Airlines, attends a meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Cancun, Mexico June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Garcia U.S. officials are concerned that explosives disguised as laptops could be direc... More »
Lufthansa Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr delivers his speech at the annual shareholders meeting in Hamburg, Germany May 5 2017. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer Demand for Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) flights is better than expected this year, with traffic from the United ... More »
U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Representative Bill Shuster (R-PA) holds strips of paper used by air traffic controllers to keep track of planes during an event where U.S. President Donald Trump proposed reforms to the U.S. a... More »
FILE PHOTO – A TSA worker loads suitcases at the checked luggage security screening station at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, U.S. on September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn/File Photo The United States might ban laptops from ... More »
People wait with their luggage at Heathrow Terminal 5 in London, Britain May 27, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall British Airways canceled all its flights from London’s two biggest airports on Saturday after a global computer system failure caused confusion and chaos, ... More »
Alex Cruz, Chairman and Chief Executive of British Airways attends The British Air Transport Association (BATA) Annual Lecture in London, Britain October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth British Airways said a power supply issue was to blame for a global compu... More »
A new Boeing 737MAX sits parked under a canopy at Boeing Field after coming off the production line in Seattle, Washington, May 9, 2017. Picture taken May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Redmond Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Wednesday it had temporarily halted test flights ... More »
FILE PHOTO – Chief Executive Officer of United Airlines Oscar Munoz introduces a new international business class dubbed United Polaris in New York, U.S. June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo United Airlines Chief Executive Oscar Munoz said less than ... More »
China and the United States are renegotiating their bilateral airworthiness agreement, China’s aviation regulator said on Thursday. More »
FILE PHOTO – A United Airlines Boeing 787 taxis as a United Airlines Boeing 767 lands at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, U.S. on February 7, 2015. REUTERS/Louis Nastro/File Photo United Airlines said on Thursday it would offer p... More »
FILE PHOTO – A United Airlines Boeing 787 taxis as a United Airlines Boeing 767 lands at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, U.S. on February 7, 2015. REUTERS/Louis Nastro/File Photo A 3-foot-long giant rabbit died at a United Airli... More »
A video screengrab shows passenger David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in this video filmed by @JayseDavid April 9, 2017. Jayse D. Anspach via REUTERS United Airlines and its chief executive faced mounti... More »
Europe’s aviation regulator voiced concern on Wednesday over the risk of battery fires in the cargo holds of passenger planes after U.S. and British authorities banned certain electronics from passenger cabins despite U.S. assurances that its agency had been t... More »
FILE PHOTO – A satellite antenna is seen on the roof of the Norwegian Airways Boening 737-800 at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, Germany, April 2, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/File Photo Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (NWC.OL) will launch nonstop transatlantic flight... More »
A bust of Cristiano Ronaldo is seen before the ceremony to rename Funchal Airport as Cristiano Ronaldo Airport in Funchal, Portugal. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante Self-taught sculptor Emanuel Santos defended his grinning bust of Cristiano Ronaldo on Thursday, telli... More »
Cristiano Ronaldo attends the ceremony to rename Funchal Airport as Cristiano Ronaldo Airport in Funchal, Portugal March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante When the island of Madeira on Wednesday renamed its airport in honor of its hometown hero Cristiano Rona... More »
Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan attends an interview with Reuters in front of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the third Bosphorus bridge linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, Turkey, August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Turkey is negotiating with in... More »
Grizz, a trainee detector dog being used at Auckland Airport in New Zealand is pictured in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters March 17, 2017. Aviation Security Service of New Zealand/Handout via REUTERS Flights from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport a... More »
Private security guard stand outside Uber offices in Parktown, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko South African taxi drivers blocked roads to Johannesburg’s airport on Friday, holding up thousands of travelers in the... More »
Southwest Airlines planes are seen in front of the Las Vegas strip, Nevada, United States in this April 23, 2015, file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) cut its forecast for a key revenue measure on Friday, citing “unexpected so... More »
A local ferry floats past as passengers aboard the cruise ship ‘Carnival Legend’ stand on a balcony at the Overseas Passenger Terminal located at Sydney’s Circular Quay in Australia, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray A parking nightmare in Sydney harbor left t... More »
A U.S. Lockheed Martin F-16 flies during an air display at the Farnborough International Air Show, Hampshire, July 19, 2004. REUTERS/Toby Melville U.S. defence firm Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) wants to push ahead with plans to move production of its F-16 combat je... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Intel Brian Krzanich in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts U.S. aviation executives will discuss the industry’s ag... More »
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker gestures as he tours the exhibition stand of the company at the International Tourism Trade Fair (ITB) in Berlin, Germany, March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker on Tuesd... More »
Dubai is finalizing a $3 billion, seven-year syndicated loan needed to back the expansion of Al Maktoum International Airport and plans to sign the facility over the next few weeks, banking sources familiar with the situation said on Monday. More »
The Facebook logo is pictured in the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California January 29, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Several technology companies plan to send a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urging his administration to follow thro... More »
Delta planes line up at their gates while on the tarmac of Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah September 28, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Delta Air Lines Inc said it had resumed limited operations after a systems outage grounded its domestic... More »
The Bay family is reunited after Hamed Bay was separated from other passengers and questioned as a result of U.S. Donald Trump’s executive order travel ban, at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. January 28, 2017. Hamed Bay was traveling back to the U... More »
A general view shows Dubai International Airport after an Emirates Airline flight crash-landed, the UAE August 3, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer Emirates airline has changed pilot and flight attendant rosters on flights to the United States following the sudden U.S. t... More »
Malaysia’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai speaks at a news conference about debris found on a beach in Mozambique that may be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Olivia Harris Malaysia’s transport m... More »
A helicopter is used to dry cherries at New Zealand Cherry CorpÕs orchard in Cromwell, in the South Island of New Zealand, January 18, 2016. New Zealand Cherry Corp/Handout via REUTERS New Zealand cherry producers are flying helicopters low over their orchards... More »
Plane debris is seen at the crash site of a Turkish cargo jet near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport outside Bishkek, January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 37 people, most of... More »
Musician Richard Marx poses backstage at the American Idol XIII 2014 Finale in Los Angeles, California May 21, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok American soft rock singer Richard Marx helped subdue a “chaotic” and “dangerous” passenger who launched a lengthy, viole... More »
A Pakistani soldier walks near the wreckage of a Pakistan International Airline (PIA) plane, which crashed a day earlier, in the village of Saddha Batolni near Abbotabad, Pakistan December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) g... More »
Planes stand on the tarmac during a pilots strike of German airline Lufthansa at Frankfurt airport, Germany, November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski German pilots union VC has announced further strikes at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) for Tuesday and Wednesday this we... More »
A large snake was found slithering inside the passenger cabin of an Aeromexico flight en route to Mexico City on Sunday and the plane was given priority to land there. More »
An Airbus A380, the world’s largest jetliner, approaches to land after a flying display during the last day of the 51st Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris, June 21, 2015. Also pictured are the French and the EU (R) flag. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol A... More »
The United Arab Emirates will finalize laws to more heavily regulate the sale of drones and their operations soon, aiming to minimize risks posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, an official at the aviation regulator said on Monday. More »
IranÕs Roads and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi speaks to foreign investors at the CAPA Iran Aviation Summit in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. REUTERS/Tim Hepher Iran urged the United States on Sunday to remove remaining obstacles to buying passe... More »
BRUSSELS – No bombs were found on two SAS aircraft after threats were made against an SAS plane late on Wednesday, Belgian prosecutors said, adding that an investigation of a possible terrorist was continuing. The inspection took place after the prosecutor’s o... More »
CAIRO An aircraft powered by solar energy left Egypt on Sunday on the last leg of the first ever fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, took off from Cairo in darkness en route to Abu Dhabi, its final destination, with... More »
CAIRO An airplane powered by energy from the sun arrived on Wednesday in Egypt, the penultimate stop on the first fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, flew over the Pyramids to make a smooth landing at Cairo airport ... More »
FARNBOROUGH, England Airbus (AIR.PA) bagged deals worth $20 billion to seize the initiative at a rain-soaked Farnborough Airshow on Tuesday, but industry executives said the mostly lackluster event confirmed a recent boom in aircraft orders was finally fizzlin... More »
FARNBOROUGH, England Europe’s Airbus on Tuesday cut the delivery target for its A380 superjumbo to 12 a year from 2018, down from 27 in 2015 and about half what is projected for this year, to prevent a glut of unsold planes as airlines shun the industry’s behe... More »
SEVILLE, Spain An airplane powered solely by energy from the sun took off from southern Spain early on Monday on the penultimate leg of the first ever fuel-free round-the-world flight. The single-seat Solar Impulse 2 lifted off from Seville at 0420 GMT (12:20 ... More »
SEVILLE, Spain An airplane powered solely by the sun landed safely in Seville in Spain early on Thursday after an almost three-day flight across the Atlantic from New York in one of the longest legs of the first ever fuel-less flight around the world. The sing... More »
A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbe... More »
BRUSSELS Belgian police were hunting on Thursday for a “third man” filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as investigators accumulated evidence that the same jihadist network was involved in the deadly Paris attacks last November. As... More »
Airlines, hotels and cruise operators serving Latin America and the Caribbean are facing growing concern among travelers spooked by the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The outbreak of the virus, linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, comes as a re... More »
BEIJING Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Monday its China unit will get an undisclosed amount of investment from Chinese firm HNA Group as part of a partnership of the U.S. ride-hailing firm with the aviation and shipping conglomerate. The partnership, ... More »
U.S. and Cuban officials said on Wednesday they had made important headway in a months-long effort to restore scheduled flight service between the countries after half a century of confrontation. An agreement would pave the way for U.S. airlines to schedule fl... More »
BEIJING/SINGAPORE Xia Lili, marketing chief at a privately-owned Shanghai software firm switched to flying with Spring Airlines (601021.SS) after China’s first low-cost carrier took off in 2010. Her company has since made it mandatory for staff to use budget a... More »
Southwest Airlines Co said hundreds of its flights were delayed because of problems on its website, phone lines and airports on Sunday. In a statement on its website, Southwest said intermittent technical issues “are impacting website performance in creating n... More »
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (RR.L) may announce a reduction of 400 management jobs in its marine division this week, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Chief Executive Warren East’s aim with the marine restructuring will be to s... More »
BEIJING Boeing Co (BA.N) on Tuesday raised its forecast for China’s aircraft demand over the next 20 years despite a slowing economy and a tumbling stock market that have triggered a worldwide slide in equity and commodity prices. The U.S. plane maker expects ... More »
DUBAI Emirates Airline [EMIRA.UL] said Tuesday that state-owned Gulf Arab airlines were not to blame for overcapacity on services between the United States and Dubai, rejecting criticism by U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines (DAL.N). Delta said Sunday it had reduced... More »
