BA claims that nearly 7,000 staff have applied for voluntary pay cuts in the airline’s cost reduction programme. By June 24, 6,940 employees had volunteered for unpaid leave, part-time working or even unpaid work, saving the airline a potential £10…

July 7: Turkish airline SunExpress has ordered six Next-Generation 737-800s from Boeing in a $460 million deal. SunExpress is a scheduled and charter carrier serving the Turkish tourist market, and was founded in 1989 as a joint venture between Turkish…

June 26: The US House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act by a vote of 219 to 212, to the concern of the US Air Transport Association (ATA). The bill places limits on US carbon…