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The European Parliament has approved new rules (8.7.10) to allow counter-terrorism authorities in America to monitor trans-Atlantic financial transfers using the SWIFT banking system. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: International flights over Europe began to resume (21.4.10), nearly a week after the dust cloud from an Icelandic volcano had closed them down. … Read More »
The weekend shut-down of flights in and out of Europe has given a nasty taste of a world without planes. … Read More »
Back to the flavour of the 1970s in England with strike action in a major industry, at British Airways, as the country heads into a national elections season. … Read More »
EU member governments have been told they should go their own way for now, on whether to use electronic body scanners at airports. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: Work stoppages by airline workers, and air traffic controllers campaigning against job-cuts, wage-cuts or changed working conditions in their industry, have been choking up Winter travel movements in Europe. … Read More »
The Brazilian government and armed forces are reporting that seventeen bodies have been found with floating debris in the sea, from the crash of an Air France flight last week (1.6.09). … Read More »