Qatar and Australia on Thursday signed an open skies agreement to operate a number of passenger and cargo flights with full traffic rights, the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.
Strikes at German low-cost airlines Eurowings and Germanwings led to the cancellation of nearly 400 flights Thursday, stranding some 40,000 passengers, a spokesman for the two companies said.
European airlines say hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled on Thursday due to a strike by air traffic controllers in France.
Sri Lanka's main international airport will be partially shut down for several hours a day for three months next year for major renovations, the Civil Aviation Authority said on Friday.
A strong typhoon stuck near Tokyo on Monday, with heavy rain and winds grounding more than 400 flights as officials warned of landslides and flooding.
Dubai International Airport reopened a runway on Thursday after authorities cleared the wreckage of an Emirates Boeing 777 that crashed and burned the previous day, the airport's chief executive said.
Dubai airport, the world's busiest in terms of international passengers, resumed flights on Wednesday after a nearly four-hour shutdown caused by an accident involving an Emirates plane, authorities said.
The main runway at the Philippines' biggest international airport was closed on Monday due to heavy rain, with more than a hundred flights expected to be delayed or diverted, officials said.
Super Typhoon Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan on Friday, forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as the strongest winds in over a century lashed part of the island.
Scandinavian airline SAS said 230 flights were cancelled on Monday, affecting 27,000 passengers, after new efforts failed to end a strike by Sweden-based pilots over wages.
Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest airport for international travel, closed its airspace for 69 minutes due to unauthorised drone activity on Saturday, causing 22 flights to be diverted, aviation authorities said.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have decided to increase the number of flights between the two countries. An agreement to this effect was reached during the 3rd Middle East Aviation Safety Summit.
