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China's Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport confirmed that direct flights between India and China will resume later this month.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2025
India and China to resume direct flights after five-year freeze
There have been no direct flights between China and India since 2020, even though China is India's biggest bilateral trade partner.
A Boeing 777X at Boeing Field in Seattle
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2025
Boeing 777X to slide into 2027, driving billions in charges
The jet, already six years late, is of major strategic and financial importance to Boeing in its duel with Airbus for a bigger slice of the lucrative long-haul market.
Travelers wait at Brussels airport after a cyberattack at a service provider for check-in and boarding systems disrupted operations at several major European airports on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2025
Cyberattack disrupts European airports including London's Heathrow and Brussels
A "cyber-related disruption" at a provider of check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several airports including London's Heathrow.
A business class suite of an Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft operated by Japan Airlines is seen during a media preview at the company's hangar at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2025
Boom in business class travel from Japan fuels airlines profits
As tariffs change trade patterns and roil global supply chains, corporate Japan is dealing with it by getting executives in the air.
Japan Airlines Managing Executive Officer Yukio Nakagawa (center) and others apologize after one of the airline's pilots was found to have been drinking alcohol, during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025
JAL to punish president and 36 others over pilot drinking scandal
A JAL pilot consumed alcohol the day before work, resulting in delays of up to 18½ hours for three flights.
Planes at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture in 2021.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2025
Two people injured after United Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Osaka
The Boeing 737 aircraft, which departed from Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture, made an emergency landing in Osaka after 7 p.m.
Japan Airlines President Mitsuko Tottori (right) bows in apology Wednesday in Tokyo over the company's pilots causing flight delays due to drinking alcohol.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2025
JAL reprimand over drunken pilots adds to airline’s woes
The transport ministry issued a fresh warning to the airline for insufficient oversight involving a series of heavy pre-flight drinking cases.
The transport ministry in late December issued a business improvement notice to Japan Airlines after various in-flight incidents in 2024, including a pilot’s excessive consumption of alcohol.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2025
Japan Airlines apologizes after another pilot drinking report
"We sincerely apologize to our customers and all parties involved for the inconvenience and trouble caused,” the company said.
An All Nippon Airways passenger plane landed on a runway where a work vehicle was operating at Wakkanai Airport in Hokkaido on Wednesday, according to the transport ministry.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2025
'Serious incident' to be probed after ANA plane lands while vehicle on runway
The Japan Transport Safety Board has appointed two aviation accident investigators to begin an investigation into the event at Wakkanai Airport in Hokkaido.
Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, joins a picket line with striking Air Canada flight attendants at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 19, 2025
Air Canada strike talks resume as flight attendants defy back-to-work order
Canada's national carrier, which flies directly to 180 cities domestically and abroad, said the strike had forced cancellations impacting 500,000 people.
A Qantas Airways Boeing 737 aircraft takes off from Sydney International Airport on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2025
Qantas fined $59 million for firing 1,820 during pandemic
Justice Michael Lee questioned the airline’s degree of contrition and its commitment to change, noting Qantas’ "unrelenting and aggressive litigation strategy.”
Demonstrators hold placards and flags, as Air Canada flight attendants said they will remain on strike and challenge a return-to-work order they called unconstitutional, defying a government decision to force them back to their duties, at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2025
Striking Air Canada flight attendants defy back-to-work order
The refusal by the union to obey the order left many travelers at Toronto Pearson International Airport confused and frustrated on Sunday afternoon.
Striking Air Canada workers walk the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2025
Canada moves to end Air Canada strike, seeking binding arbitration
Thousands of Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job for the first time since 1985 on Saturday.
Air Canada flight attendants picket outside Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2025
Air Canada and union deadlocked despite government plea for deal to avert Saturday strike
Canada's largest carrier has said it expects to cancel 500 flights by the end of the day.
Kimi Ozawa, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, prays in front of his memorial marker on Tuesday in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture.
JAPAN / History / FOCUS
Aug 12, 2025
Controversial theories continue to swirl around 1985 JAL jet crash
Some bereaved family members and critics who subscribe to the idea of possible SDF involvement say the initial probe left too many loose ends untied.
People offer prayers in front of a monument at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2025
Victims mourned 40 years after JAL plane crash
At around 6:56 p.m. on Aug. 12, 1985, JAL Flight 123 crashed while on its way to Osaka, killing 520 of the 524 passengers and crew members on board.
The World Energy refinery in Paramount, California
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 12, 2025
The airline industry's dirty secret: Clean jet fuel failures
An analysis has found that the airline industry's plans to go green before regulators start penalizing them are little more than a pipe dream.
Machiko Taniguchi speaks to the memorial marker for her husband who died in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet at the crash site on Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, in July.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2025
Woman whose husband died in 1985 plane crash advocates safety to JAL employees
Japan Airlines Flight 123 bound for Osaka crashed in the mountains north of Tokyo on Aug. 12, 1985, killing 520 passengers and crew.
An electric air taxi from Joby Aviation flies near the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, in November 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 8, 2025
Electric 'air taxis' could debut in Japan from 2027
All Nippon Airways says it is partnering with California-based Joby Aviation to deploy more than 100 of the five-seater aircraft.
An Airbus A380 airplane during its maiden flight in France in 2005
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2025
The world’s biggest passenger plane keeps breaking down
Two decades after its maiden flight, the Airbus A380 superjumbo is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for airlines.

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