Porter Airlines said on Tuesday that no imminent safety issues were involved in an incident some four years ago when it received a warning from Transport Canada inspectors charged with implementing new air safety rules.

Virgin Australia says it will provide additional capacity to minimise the impact of ongoing Qantas industrial action on the Australian travel and tourism industry.

A Qantas jet has made an emergency landing on Lord Howe Island following engine failure, an airline spokeswoman says.

Airbus has completed installation of the first Rolls-Royce Trent XWB flight-test engine on the A380 "flying-testbed" aircraft (MSN 001). The aircraft is depicted here at Airbus' Jean-Luc Lagardère site in Toulouse where the engine was mounted. The aircraft and engine will now be prepared for the flight-test campaign commencing in the coming weeks.

An Iran Air Boeing 727-200, registration EP-IRR performing flight IR-742 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Tehran Imam Khomeini (Iran) with 94 passengers and 19 crew, was on approach to Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport around 15:20 p.m. L (11:50 a.m. Z) when the crew did not receive a down and locked indication for the nose gear and aborted the approach. Following unsuccessful troubleshooting the crew decided to divert to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport where a low approach confirmed the nose gear was not extended. The crew subsequently performed a landing without the nose gear on runway 29L at about 16:00 p.m. L (12:30 p.m. Z) and came to a stand still on both main gear and the nose of the aircraft. The aircraft was evacuated, no injuries occurred.

A man was arrested Tuesday after his unruly behavior aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City compelled the flight crew to make an emergency landing in Texas.

Newquay Airport will remain open despite a reduction in passenger numbers, Cornwall Council has said.

A Sydney-bound Qantas flight has been forced to turn back to Bangkok with engine problems after a bang onboard the plane, the airline says.

Argentina and Uruguay both suspended flights at major airports Sunday due to dangerous ash from neighboring Chile's Puyehue volcano, which has disrupted global travel since it erupted earlier this year.

American Airlines and its pilots union are working to reach a contract agreement over the next several days, spurred by a manpower shortage that forced the carrier to cut flights and close a crew base.