Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday passenger traffic rose 7 percent in August from a year earlier adding the outlook for yields remained uncertain.
British Airways and Iberia have a list of 12 potential airlines to buy or merge with when their tie-up is complete, BA chief executive Willie Walsh said in Mumbai on Sunday.
British Airways carried 2.9 percent fewer passengers in August compared with the year before and said its overall summer performance had been weaker than last year.
Delta Air Lines has seen very strong traffic on its flights in August, helped in part by a stronger yen that spurred more Japanese to take overseas trips, its company president said on Thursday.
In a bid to attract customers looking for a bargain Copenhagen Airport's new low-cost terminal would offer airlines charges about a third lower than fees at its existing facilities, the airport operator said.
Two men have been detained in Amsterdam because of "suspicious items" found in their luggage on a flight from the United States, US television networks reported on Monday.
Iberia had fuller its planes in July than a year earlier by cutting capacity on domestic and European routes and increasing its intercontinental flights, the Spanish airline said on Thursday.
Major US airlines saw higher traffic and flights that were often full in July, reflecting improved travel demand, according to data released by the airlines over the last week.
Egyptian flag carrier Egyptair aims to boost full-year profit by nearly a third as it rebounds from the global economic downturn, a senior executive said on Sunday.
Delta Air Lines' USD$1.2 billion renovation of its terminals at New York's John F Kennedy Airport is expected to be approved on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's dominant carrier Cathay Pacific Airways is heading for a record year, with plans to boost its fleet by more than a third, after first-half profit beat forecasts on a strong revival in international traffic.
Hoping to reverse a drop in market share, flag carrier Thai Airways is jetting into regional markets with a budget airline operated with Singapore's Tiger Airways.
Shanghai Airlines will leave Star Alliance at the end of October, after bigger rival China Eastern Airlines took it over for USD$1.3 billion last year, state media said on Thursday.
EasyJet posted a 5.3 percent rise in third-quarter sales and its new chief executive pledged to make the carrier more efficient and repair its fractured relationship with a key shareholder.
Air Berlin expects to start flying as part of the Oneworld alliance of airlines in early 2012 in a move analysts said would bolster its position against German flagship carrier Lufthansa.
Bahrain plans to privatise national carrier Gulf Air as soon as possible encouraged by positive results in its restructuring, a senior government official said in remarks published on Sunday.
Thai Airways said on Wednesday it expected to cut costs by as much as THB20 billion baht (USD$620 million) from 2010 to 2012, adding political unrest might lead it to report an operating loss for the second quarter.
China Eastern Airlines said its profit for the first half of 2010 would increase by more than 50 percent over the same period a year ago as the country's aviation market recovered rapidly.
Chile LAN August Passenger Traffic Up 13.7 Pct - 09.09.2010
Chile's LAN Airlines said on Wednesday its passenger traffic rose 13.7 percent in August from a year earlier after gaining 14.5 percent in July.