Europe’s air-safety regulator has revealed plans to grade aircraft according to carbon emissions so passengers can make a choice when flying.

The winners of the World Travel Awards Europe 2019, including hotels and airlines, have been announced in Madeira.

A report by the Flight Safety Foundation suggests that allowing pilots to rest during flights might increase overall safety by reducing pilot fatigue.

Rising costs including labour, fuel and infrastructure are biting into margins right across the board, IATA says, with European airlines suffering too.

A leaked European Commission report claims that a new fuel tax would be like removing almost eight million cars off the roads.

A new list by a personal finance website has considered several factors such as safety, comfort and pet-friendliness, coming up with a ranking of what it calls the best and the worst.

In comes a prominent businessman from northern Jutland to help get the new airline’s first plane off the ground.

The incident exposes the fact that pilots in the US have been authorised to carry guns since the September 2001 terror attacks.

Finnair and Icelandair were among 33 airlines competing in the Cellars in the Sky 2018 awards, now in their 33rd year.

The new rules bar commercial airlines from carrying the potentially dangerous hazardous batteries as cargo.

The regional airline, which had a strong presence in Scandinavia, has ceased operations and stranded passengers across Europe.

Great Dane Airlines is the name of a start-up carrier that will offer charter and scheduled flights from Aalborg Airport.

Malaysia Airports Holdings and Tourism Malaysia have agreed on greater incentives to lure long-haul flights.

The bigger airlines “are using the crisis among smaller carriers to entrench their positions by gaining taking market share”.

SAS and Finnair are in the top 20 safest airlines, while the ten safest low-cost carriers and a few of the least safe airlines are also named.

Europe’s airlines face a chilly winter, Bloomberg writes, with Nordic carriers in particular exposed to brutal headwinds.

2019 will be a difficult, dangerous and decisive year for aviation in Europe, an aviation expert predicts.

Airline profits are ready to return to growth on the back of lower oil and expanding economies, IATA predicts.

Routes Europe will be staged in the Norwegian city in April 2020, with 1,200 airline route developers expected to attend.

In the second part of an interview, Travelport’s global head of new distribution has further comments on airlines, travel agents and NDC.