13 DEC: Etihad Airways said yesterday that it is buying 10 more of Boeing’s new 787-9 planes, making it the largest airline customer for that version of the much-hyped carbon fibre jet.

13 DEC: Two Jetstar pilots are to undergo "remedial" training after an incident at Melbourne airport in July, the Herald Sun newspaper reports today.

12 DEC: Delta Air Lines has taken a minority shareholding in Brazilian carrier GOL.

9 DEC: The end is nigh for an airline which last month told 180 passengers during a Vienna stopover that they’d have to fork out extra cash for fuel if they wanted to complete their journey from India to the UK.

8 DEC: The eurozone crisis could lead to global aviation industry losses next year totalling more than $9 billion, IATA warned yesterday.

7 DEC: In what must be a first for the airline industry, three women were escorted off a plane in Florida on Monday, all of them claiming they did nothing wrong.

6 DEC: Air Zimbabwe might cancel flights to South Africa because its planes could be impounded in Johannesburg over unpaid bills, aviation sources said yesterday, website News24.com reports.

6 DEC: British media is making fun of a British Airways staff relations campaign today after discovering that a teenage flight attendant has fallen pregnant to a married captain.

6 DEC: It’s not unusual for travel agencies to go bankrupt owing airlines money. But last week in the USA the reverse occurred.

6 DEC: A man has been charged with disorderly conduct after he and a woman entered a toilet together during a Jetstar flight from Brisbane to Mackay at the weekend.