Alaska Airlines and sister carrier Horizon Air have purchased sufficient biofuel from SkyNRG, an aviation biofuels broker, to operate a total of 75 passenger flights using biofuel during the month of November.

A Boeing 777 from Continental Airlines carrier landed safely at the Ben Gurion International airport in Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, after alerting the airport authorities of smoke in the cockpit, local media reported.

Testing for a new program aimed at getting certain travelers through airport security with less hassle is expanding to airports in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Minneapolis and St. Paul over the next few months, the government said Wednesday.

Snecma's aircraft engine assembly hall at Villaroche, south-east of Paris, is the size of a sports stadium and eerily quiet.

India's second-biggest carrier, loss-making Kingfisher Airlines, plans to cancel 31 flights daily for the next 12 days in a further sign of operational problems, a media report said Tuesday.

The Australian parliament has passed a law which introduces a carbon tax on the country's top 500 polluting companies.

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says there should be changes to legislation to prevent a future grounding of the Qantas fleet on the authority of one person.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 249 people had to make a second approach at a west Japan airport before landing, after a glitch forced the pilot to manually deploy the main landing gear, the airline said Monday.

Another chartered flight is scheduled to leave the United States for Cuba Sunday as a result of recent U.S. government moves to ease restrictions on travel to the Communist nation.

United Airlines, the world's largest air carrier, will make the first U.S. commercial flight using an "advanced biofuel" on Monday, algae-based biofuel maker Solazyme Inc said.