New details are emerging about the man sent by Saudi counterterrorism agents into Yemen as a mole when it emerged that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was developing another airline bomb plot.

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Agent in bomb plot held UK passport

Although the airline reached a deal with the Transport Workers Union that could save jobs, relations have been tense.

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American Airlines Seeks to Void Labor Contracts

Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou denounces executives at the airline over their “fat cat bonuses”.

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Easyjet’s ‘gravy train’ blasted

MOSCOW — The navigator of a passenger airliner that crashed in June killing 47 people was drunk, one of several contributing factors in the disaster, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee said Monday. The Tu-134 jet belonging to the airline RusAir slammed into a highway just minutes before it was to land June 20 at Petrozavodsk airport in northwest Russia. Five people survived. Read full article > >

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Navigator in Russian that killed 44 had been drinking, aviation committee says

The Unite union says it will hold a fresh strike ballot among British Airways cabin crew after a “legal blitz” from the airline.

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BA crew strike ballot ‘unlawful’

British Airways cabin crew are to be balloted again over possible new strike action in their long-running dispute with the airline.

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BA cabin crew face fresh ballot

Faced with widespread resistance to what some passengers see as personally intrusive air travel security measures, US officials are looking for ways to ease the demands on those who fly on commercial airliners. That starts with those flying the aircraft. Beginning in 2011, airline pilots will no longer have to go through scanners or be subject to full-body pat-downs, just as ticketed passengers now do. Instead, they’ll simply need to have their airline-issued ID checked by computer. read more

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Pilots To Be Exempt From Airport Scanners, Intrusive Pat-Downs

A Qantas Airways flight carrying 199 passengers was forced to turn back to Sydney on Monday because of a technical problem, the airline said.

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Qantas flight makes emergency landing

The failure that caused the emergency landing of a Qantas Airbus A380 in Singapore may have been caused by a design fault, the airline’s head says.

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‘Possible fault’ in A380 – Qantas

Ryanair’s latest half-year profits rise 15% as the airline enjoys a big increase in passenger numbers.

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Ryanair’s half-year profits soar

A JetBlue flight attendant whose fame took off after his dramatic exit down an emergency chute is is no longer employed by the airline.

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Steven Slater, JetBlue part ways

Ryanair is ceasing services from Belfast City Airport from 31 October, the airline has announced.

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Ryanair pulls out of Belfast City

Air New Zealand has reported a fourfold increase in profits, leading signs of recovery in the airline industry.

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Airlines’ profits signal recovery

The number of passengers buying premium airline tickets increased in June, the airline industry association IATA says.

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Premium airline traffic increases