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The idea is instead of the traditional paper boarding passes, passengers will use their mobile phones or PDAs to board an airplane. American Airlines tried out this new method for the first time on Thursday with passengers leaving on domestic flights from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... [more]

Asia's largest budget airline announced this past week that it was abolishing its fuel surcharge and giving away 500,000 free tickets for travel beginning halfway through next year. [more]

Qantas has said that its own investigations confirmed the findings of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB) preliminary report into the QF72 event in October, that the likely cause was a manufacturer fault involving a flight system computer component. [more]

Britain’s two most successful aviation entrepreneurs, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, are joining forces to make a joint £2.5bn bid for Gatwick Airport. Their respective carriers Virgin Atlantic and easyJet are currently seeking financial backers to form a consortium to take ov... [more]

38-year-old pop diva Mariah Carey landed yesterday at London Heathrow Airport for an upcoming performance on the X Factor, bringing along 27 bags of luggage for a stay that is only expected to last three days. [more]

I like working in business class. What I like even more are the other flight attendants who enjoy working in business. Call me crazy, but I even like business class passengers. I do! What I find interesting about business class passengers is that the majority of them find it hard to believe ... [more]

Boeing has announced that it will carry out tests of a new "2nd generation" biofuel using one of its 747s. The plane,owned by Air New Zealand will take off on December 13th. Because it is the first live test, only one of the plane's 4 engines will use the fuel, made from the nuts of jatropha plan... [more]

Qantas has announced that it would grow its China network, with daily China Eastern codeshare flights between Shanghai and Chengdu and Xi’an. Qantas Group General Manager Sales and Distribution, Mr Rob Gurney, said China was an important market for Qantas. [more]

It's a good news, bad news kind of week for Alitalia. The rescue deal is a go, but your flight may not be. [more]

Dubai's Emirates Airlines made its inaugural Airbus A380 flight into New York's John F Kennedy airport this past Friday, on what will now become America's first regularly scheduled service with the the new two story jumbo jet. Gadling was on hand to capture some sweet photos in and around th... [more]