International Air Transport Association

The chief executive of Air France-KLM, Alexandre de Juniac, is stepping down to run the airline industry's main trade group, the International Air Transport Association, it was announced on April 5.

Airbus and Boeing announced billion-dollar deals at Asia's largest airshow in Singapore on Feb. 17, underscoring the region's role as a driver of industry growth despite greater caution among plane buyers.

Europe's Airbus said it had won a $1.85 billion deal for the purchase of six A350-900s by Philippine Airlines (PAL), the flag carrier of one of Asia's fastest-growing economies.

The aviation industry is set to post a second consecutive year of net profits in 2015, nearly doubling them to $33 billion (30.1 billion) thanks to low fuel prices, its trade association said Dec. 10.

The aviation industry is still struggling to gain better access to information on conflict zones, more than a year after the downing of a passenger plane over eastern Ukraine last year.

Turkish Airlines CEO Temel Kotil has said ticket prices will drop once Istanbul?s under-construction new airport is completed. 

?We believe our costs will decline when the third airport is completed and this will lead to slashed ticket prices. Declining oil prices have already positively affected ticket prices,? Kotil said. 

For the first time, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) opened fire on Turkish territory. For the first time, the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) attacked ISIL within Turkey.

For the first time, Turkey conducted air operation against ISIL. And for the first time, Turkey will open the ?ncirlik airbase for U.S. warplanes.
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Istanbul?s Atatürk Airport saw all-time high flight traffic on July 21, with 1,389 airplanes taking off from or landing at the airport. The previous record ocurred on May 14 this year, with 1,375 landings and take-offs. 

TAROM is launching today its Dragobete [Romania's love-celebrating holiday, marked on Feb. 24] offer by selling tickets with a starting price of 99 euros for round trips, with all charges included, according to an airline's release.

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TAROM Airlines, in a release to AGERPRES on Thursday, informed that it is going to introduce an additional number of flights, during the 2014-2015 winter season, on four of its already existing routes.

Thus, the Bucharest-Rome-Bucharest route will have two extra flights added, reaching thus to six weekly flights.

BELGRADE - Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport will boost border sanitary inspection from Saturday in the wake of the outbreak of the largest Ebola epidemic the world has seen in 40 years, but all other measures required to prevent occurrences of the disease will be taken as well, Serbian Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar said.