Spanish airline Clickair to ground 7-8 planes

MADRID - Spanish airline Iberia's low-cost affiliate Clickair will ground seven or eight planes due to expected weak demand during the winter season, a spokesman for the airline said on Thursday.

Grounded space tourist wants $21 million refund

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A Japanese businessman who trained for a 10-day flight aboard the International Space Station has sued to get his money back, claiming he was defrauded of $21 million by the

Sudan crash airline is grounded

Sudan's national airline has been banned from flying for a month for failing to comply with aviation rules. Sudan Airways has been told that it will not be allowed...

Inspector may have found airline security breach, TSA says

A federal safety inspector who boarded a number of American Eagle jets by grabbing a sensitive instrument, prompting nine planes to be grounded, was looking for security lapses -- and may have found t

Pilot walkouts ground nearly 1,000 Lufthansa flights

BERLIN - German flag carrier Lufthansa was forced Tuesday to cancel nearly 1,000 flights due to warning strikes by pilots working for two of its units, an airline spokeswoman said.

Thai authorities suspend service of budget airline for 30 days on poor safety standard

BANGKOK, Thailand - The Thai budget airliner One-Two-Go, which suffered a deadly crash last year, will be forced to suspend the bulk of its operations starting Tuesday, the Thailand's Civil Aviation D

Airline grounded for safety violations

REMOTE islands in the Torres Strait are without regular scheduled air services after the aviation watchdog grounded a Cairns airline for safety breaches.

Sudan grounds its national airline

KHARTOUM — Sudan has grounded its national carrier Sudan Airways from Monday because it says the airline does not meet international standards, a civil aviation official said on Sunday.

Sri Lanka's budget airline grounded by... lack of planes

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's state-run budget carrier has suspended operations indefinitely because of a lack of planes, an aviation official said Sunday.

The budget airline, Mihin Lanka, has been dogged with financial trouble since it began commercial operations last April.

Rising costs reshaping air travel across the USA

Record-high oil prices are threatening to ground millions of travelers who have grown accustomed to flying for fun and business during the past 30 years.

Passengers stranded after S.Africa airline grounded

JOHANNESBURG — Hundreds of passengers were left stranded on Wednesday after a South African private airline was grounded without warning following cash-flow problems.

What you can do when your airline is grounded

Travelers caught in a massive airline delay - such as those systemic delays caused by grounding of an entire fleet of aircraft - have very few specific, legally defined "rights." Instead, what you get is what the airline is willing to give you, or if you pursue it, what you can recover in court.

Southwest grounds dozens of jets

DALLAS - Southwest Airlines Co. canceled flights Wednesday and temporarily grounded 43 planes to examine if they were sound enough to carry passengers, the latest twist in the low-cost carrier's saga of missed safety inspections and civil penalties.

Airline grounds 2 teens

A Lanceston mother has warned teenage travellers to read the fine print after two young Tasmanians were recently unable to board a flight to Melbourne operated by budget airline Tiger Airways.

Ugandan cargo liner DAS taxies to a halt

Ugandan carrier DAS Air has finally been grounded, just three years after the carrier won back-to-back accolades as the best cargo airline in Africa.

The failure, being blamed on a ban that stopped the carrier from operating in the European Union in 2006, brings an end to the most illustrious indigenously-owned airline in Ugandan ... read more