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Boeing and its commercial plane workers' union have agreed to resume contract talks in an effort to end a month-long strike which has idled the company's Seattle-area plants.

The British government granted London's Stansted Airport permission to increase flight capacity by 10 percent on Thursday, overruling a local authority which had banned the expansion on environmental grounds.

A small private plane crashed in the remote mountains of northeast Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people, airline and airport officials said.

A trial of full-body scanner security checks at Australian airports have got some passengers worried that their private parts won't be private any more, and that the revealing images may end up on the Internet.

Thai Airways said on Wednesday it would cut flights to Asian countries from next week due to a fall in passenger numbers because of political unrest in Thailand and the global financial crisis.

Unions representing pilots at British Airways and Spain's Iberia support a proposed merger to create the world's third-largest airline, they said on Wednesday.

A proposed new airport for Mexico's Riviera Maya resorts became the first major casualty of Mexican government spending cuts due to the global financial crisis.

United Airlines said on Wednesday it would lay off 414 mechanics as part of a previously announced plan to cut 7,000 jobs company-wide.

Tens of thousands of Greeks went on strike on Wednesday, grounding flights and bringing traffic to a halt in the capital, in a protest against the conservative government's privatization plans and the rising cost of living.

British airports operator BAA on Wednesday said it hired HSBC and RBS as advisers for the sale of London's Gatwick Airport.

British Airways' widening pension deficit could become a stumbling block in its merger talks with Iberia, as the Spanish airline's shareholders use it to gain a bigger stake in the new group.

Alaska Air Group said on Tuesday it will post a "significant" third-quarter net loss due largely to losses related to its fuel hedge positions.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday he may help create a sister company to launch a long-haul, low-cost airline, if cheap aircraft became available next year.

Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday it expected a crash involving a plane operated by its subsidiary company Spanair to affect the firm's results by around SEK500 million Swedish kronor (USD$69.6 million).

Over 30 people were injured, some with broken bones and lacerations, when a Qantas passenger jet flying from Singapore to Perth struck turbulence on Tuesday and had to make an emergency landing at a remote Australian airport, officials said.

Malaysian airline AirAsia expects stronger passenger growth next year as it adds new routes and planes, saying the darkening economic outlook will boost demand for its budget flights.

British Airways shareholders are likely to receive around 60 percent and Iberia investors 40 percent of a new airline when they merge, Iberia's biggest shareholder, Caja Madrid, said on Monday.

Petters Aviation said on Monday that it and its subsidiaries had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.