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A Sudan Airways plane carrying 217 people burst into flames after landing at Khartoum Airport on Tuesday and local media said dozens were feared killed.

Chile's dominant airline LAN said on Tuesday its passenger traffic rose 13.5 percent in May compared with the same month last year.

Ailing Italian airline Alitalia said on Tuesday its passenger bookings had recovered in recent weeks, after a sharp tumble in April driven partly by fears it might go out of business.

Pinnacle Airlines said on Tuesday that Delta Air Lines intended to terminate its contract as a Delta Connection carrier, effective July 31, sending its shares down more than 20 percent.

Austria is open to all options for Austrian Airlines but a strategic partner taking a stake in the national carrier was the most likely scenario, Austria's finance minister said on Tuesday.

The chief executive of Kenya Airways, one of Africa's most successful airlines, said on Tuesday its profits could disappear entirely if fuel costs keep rising.

Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday May group traffic, measured by revenue passenger kilometres, rose 12.5 percent year-on-year.

Russian flag carrier Aeroflot is waiting for the Austrian government's offer to start talks on buying into Austrian Airlines, its general director Valery Okulov said on Saturday.

Lufthansa said on Saturday it used passenger travel records to find out who in the company was leaking information to the media, but added it had done nothing illegal.

India's Jet Airways has delayed the start of its New Delhi-Hong Kong flights by a few months, a senior official said, signaling deepening gloom in an industry buffeted by high oil prices.

Japanese discount airline Skymark Airlines cut its annual operating profit forecast by 89 percent on Monday after a shortage of pilots forced it to cancel hundreds of flights.

JetBlue Airways' LiveTV unit said on Monday it plans to buy Verizon Communications' Airfone network to develop in-flight email and Internet services.

Air France-KLM dampened Italian hopes of a revival of talks to buy Alitalia, saying on Monday the matter was closed.

A host of smaller European airlines are likely to go bankrupt in coming months if the oil price does not drop significantly below current levels of USD$130 a barrel.

Air France-KLM on Monday voiced concerns over the proposed inclusion of airlines in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at a time of high oil prices.

By the time US airlines are finished cutting capacity and shrinking to survive record fuel costs, the US commercial airline network will look a lot leaner and, for some consumers, a lot meaner.

The Evening News reports that passengers travelling from Edinburgh Airport are still not following the Government set rules for liquids in hand luggage, and are forced to give up half a tonne of items every week. Since the rules were introduced in November 2006, this has included more than one million cans of deodorant.

easyCar.com, the easyGroup car hire company, has signed a range of deals to add additional services to its core website, including airport car parking and airport hotels. The deals will allow the company to increase its ancillary income, an increasingly important revenue source for travel companies.

Emirates is planning to invest £1.5 million in a new business lounge at Birmingham Airport, where it is currently handling around 18,000 passengers a month, with around 1,000 of those heading for destinations in China.

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as part of the group's review of its majority shareholding in Humberside Airport. A spokesman for MAG said PWC will act on its behalf in exploring a possible transfer of ownership of Humberside Airport.