Qatar Airways will be the global launch customer of GlobalBeacon (sm), a technology solution designed to provide global tracking of all aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast in 2018.
A Philippine passenger jet heading to Japan was forced to turn back on Monday after smoke was detected in the aircraft, while the wheel of a second plane caught fire after it aborted taking off from a separate airport.
Residents in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo cowered in their homes on Saturday as relentless missile strikes and barrel bomb attacks pounded the besieged eastern half of the divided city.
Mozambique authorities on Monday exhibited three new pieces of aircraft that washed up along its coast and are suspected of belonging to the missing flight MH370.
Plans to expand the Hamad International Airport (HIA) will be completed as scheduled 'by 2021 the latest,' Qatar Airways (QA) Group chief executive Akbar al-Baker has said.
The world's largest aircraft suffered cockpit damage on Wednesday after nosediving while landing on its second test flight, but there were no injuries, according to the craft's manufacturer.
Qatar Airways said that an aircraft that was forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Thursday landed safely and that passengers had disembarked as normal.
Lower oil prices and robust demand have made it economical to keep flying less fuel-efficient aircraft; IATA said and noted that some 79 aircraft were removed from the global fleet in June ...
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.
Cyprus finally brought a massive wildfire under control on Thursday after a five-day battle that saw two firefighters killed and five foreign governments send aircraft to help, a minister said.
Iran and US aerospace giant Boeing have reached an agreement for the purchase of 100 aircraft to renew the country's ageing fleet, the head of Tehran's civil aviation authority announced on Sunday.
A B-52 bomber was left a fiery wreck after crashing at a US airbase on the Pacific island of Guam on Thursday but all seven crew escaped unharmed, officials said.
