Airlines could be forced to pay compensation to passengers for a delayed flight, even if it touches down on time.

Airlines are facing the most expensive year for insurance costs since the 9/11 attacks.

A train bearing the bodies of the people who died in the Malaysia Airlines crash has arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on their way to the Netherlands.

A book of condolences will open at the Dutch Embassy in Dublin today for the victims of the Malaysian Airlines crash.

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Airlines are keeping their promise to deliver more routes and capacity in exchange for the removal of the air travel tax.

Searchers worked through the night but could not find an object spotted yesterday afternoon that was thought to be a door from the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet.

Russian investigators are combing through the charred fragments of a Boeing 737 jetliner as they try to determine what caused it to crash, killing all 50 people on board.

Two men have been arrested after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Stansted Airport, police have said.

A teenage victim of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco was killed when she was struck by a vehicle at the scene, a coroner said today.

Airlines cut the rate of mishandled bags in 2012, with transfer flights accounting for less than half of incidents for the first time in four years as carriers used new technology to speed transit times and cope with delays.

Airlines will no longer be responsible for providing accommodation for an “indefinite period” to stranded passengers during natural or weather disasters.

American Airlines and American Eagle’s parent companies have applied for bankruptcy protection.`

Airlines started flying a backlog of thousands of stranded passengers to and from Australia’s second-largest city today after an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano began to clear.

Airlines are starting more than 120 new services from UK airports this summer.

Airlines are expected to operate as normal for the rest of the week as weather patterns pushed a volcanic ash cloud into north east Europe today.

An Irish author killed in the Libya plane crash was flying to Britain to sign a book deal after being delayed by the volcanic ash cloud, it was revealed today.

Two Irish airlines are in talks about a "commercial alliance" to operate joint flights.

A Somali national tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month with powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that together could have caused an explosion, officials said today.

A DUTCH jet was forced to divert to Cork airport when a passenger with a gunshot wound suffered a heart attack.

Most of the largest US airlines will temporarily reduce services to Mexico, as swine flu fears keep many US travellers from venturing south of the border.

Airlines must pay compensation to passengers whose flights are cancelled because of technical problems with the plane, European judges ruled today.

US government authorities diverted a San Francisco-bound United Airlines jet to Dallas as a precautionary security measure after finding an unclaimed BlackBerry hand-held computer on board.

Airlines across Europe cancelled flights bound for Heathrow Airport today, while some airports offered to take on diverted traffic after British authorities said they had thwarted a terror attack aimed at aircraft flying from Britain to the US

Greengrass, who directed the controversial Bloody Sunday film, takes on the harrowing story of the ill-fated Flight 93 that crashed during the 2001 Twin Towers attack … and fashions a quite stunning, calmly honest classic.

The following is a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder aboard United Airlines Flight 93. All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (Irish time minus 4) on September 11, 2001.

AIRLINES have warned they will be forced to increase airfares after they lost their battle to block compensation for stranded and delayed passengers.

A Nigerian passenger jet crashed in the southern city of Port Harcourt today, killing almost all passengers on board, according to Nigerian media.

Chinese planes touched down in Taiwan today, completing the first non-stop flights between the rivals since a bloody civil war split the two sides 56 years ago.

An Italian tourist aboard a flight from Sydney to Vienna caused a security alert when he sent a prank text message to his wife claiming his plane had been hijacked by terrorists.

Airlines lifted the London market today after no-frills carrier easyJet posted record profits and the oil price started to decline.

A LOW-COST airline has gone into receivership before it began flying, it emerged yesterday.

AIRLINES flying out of Ireland with passengers whose final destination is the United States have been warned to state clearly what information will be passed on to the American authorities.

European airlines need an international insurance fund if they are to avoid a crisis like the one that hit US carriers after Sept 11, according to a senior member of the Association of European Airlines.

Hundreds of people have crowded into the city square in Ufa to mourn the 45 Russian schoolchildren who died in last week's midair disaster over Germany.

Virgin boss Richard Branson said today that he would expand his cut price-Australian domestic airline into Asia.

British police have appealed for anyone with information on today's robbery at Heathrow Airport to come forward.

There are reports that $3m has been stolen from a plane at Heathrow Airport.

Police have arrested three men suspected of sending emails that contained photographs of missing US reporter, Daniel Pearl.

Police in Pakistan are hunting a former British public schoolboy they believe is responsible for the kidnapping of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

Virgin Express confirmed today it is in talks with the successor to collapsed Belgian state airline Sabena on a possible co-operation agreement, but denied that a merger is imminent.

The US government is on the verge of approving Delta Air Lines Inc and Air France's application for anti-trust immunity to deepen their transatlantic alliance, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

The American Airlines crash in New York will have a disastrous effect on the airline industry whether it was caused by a terrorist attack or not, aviation experts said today.

Airlines need to slash their costs and air fares if they are to survive, the chief executive of bmi british midland was saying today.