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Campaigners are planning to attend a rally in London over proposals to change flight paths across the south east, including at Luton Airport. The rally on Thursday, June 19, will march on the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) head office and has been organised to coincide with the end of the consultation.

On June 5 1983, Nasa's space shuttle Enterprise made a historic visit to Stansted Airport. To mark the 25th anniversary of this occasion, the airport will host a special exhibition at Enterprise House today, featuring film footage of the shuttle landing, rare photographs and other memorabilia.

The Government has rejected calls for three men who helped tackle the Glasgow Airport bombers almost a year ago to receive medals as John Smeaton, the most high profile civilian, has.

Begbies Traynor partner Mark Fry, the joint administrators of Luton Airport based all business class airline Silverjet, said that he hopes to find a buyer this week, Accountancy Age reports.

Low cost long haul airline Zoom may be 'running through some turbulence with an insurance company, but it's their passengers with bookings this summer who may be the ones left with white knuckles', the Winnipeg Free Press reports.

The secretary of state for transport, Ruth Kelly, has said the Government is committed to cutting green house gases while building bigger airports. She told a House of Commons debate this week that hitting carbon emission reduction targets was compatible' with its plans to expand Gatwick and Stansted airports.

British Airways transferred fifteen long-haul flights to Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) today, and has so far avoided the chaos that surrounded the opening of the giant £4.3 billion facility two months ago. A confident BA spokesman was quoted as saying: 'We are reasonably confident that the move will go ahead smoothly,' but in the event it would appear that they have.

Continental Airlines said on Thursday it would cut 3,000 jobs, or about 6.5 percent of its work force, and retire 67 older planes as it scales down in the face of high fuel prices.

CSA Czech Airlines, earmarked for privatization, booked a loss of CZK444 million koruny (USD$27.8 million) in the January to April period, as high fuel prices offset cost cuts in what is usually a weak part of the year.

Australia's Qantas Airways said on Thursday it plans to make changes to some international flight schedules to manage the effects of higher oil prices.

Air New Zealand said on Thursday it planned to use biofuels for 10 percent of its fuel consumption within the next five years amid rising jet fuel prices and a global drive to cut carbon emissions.

Air Canada's load factor on its mainline system rose to a record 84.3 percent last month, up from 83.8 percent in May 2007.

Mexican airport operator Asur said on Thursday its passenger traffic rose 13.2 percent in May, returning to the double-digit growth observed during the first quarter of 2008.

The UN's aviation agency on Thursday launched a standard to calculate how much air passengers should pay to offset their carbon emissions, deciding to ignore an area of hot debate on the sector's climate effect.

The European Union will give Canberra 19 pieces of personal information on passengers traveling to Australia at least 72 hours before their flights, after EU ministers backed an anti-terrorism deal on Thursday.

Bankrupt Frontier Airlines said on Thursday the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union voted in support of temporary wage and benefit concessions sought by Frontier.

Airport operator Hightlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) have said the planned strike by airport firefighters next week has now been suspended. Further talks will take place between the company and the Unite trade union. However, industrial action is still proposed for July 4.

Liverpool Airport managing director, Neil Pakey, has called on the Government not to 'tax planes out of the sky' at a time when fuel prices are crippling airline profits. The Treasury is planning to reform Air Passenger Duty (APD), which is added to the cost of every plane journey from the UK - and Mr Pakey is urging it not to add to airlines' costs at a time of record fuel prices.

The Times has criticised Ryanair and Michael O'Leary for his decision not to hedge against rising oil prices, which has left the airline almost completely exposed to oil at more than $130 a barrel. The 'crappy airlines' that he suggested would go bust this year also criticised the budget airlines failure to hedge its fuel needs.

BAA started talks with holders of £4.7bn of its bonds on implementing a new debt structure yesterday, the airports operator said in a statement. The bondholders are seen as the key group of investors that could frustrate its proposed refinancing.