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French planemaker Dassault Aviation said it had won a USD$720 million deal with US corporate jet company NetJets which has ordered 20 of Dassault's Falcon 2000LX planes.

Ground staff at six Norwegian airports began an indefinite strike over pay on Friday, stranding up to 20,000 passengers before Norway's biggest holiday weekend, civil aviation authority Avinor said.

Eos Airlines said on Friday it has asked a US bankruptcy court to approve a schedule for the auction and sale of the company and its assets.

The European Union expects to complete by 2010 talks with the United States on liberalizing transatlantic aviation, the EU's chief negotiator said on Friday, paving the way for increased competition.

Italy's government could name a new chief for Alitalia next week to replace former chairman Maurizio Prato who resigned last month after the airline's sale to Air France-KLM collapsed, union sources said on Friday.

Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines will scrap from June a deal that allows passengers to go on walk-in flights under a shared shuttle service, the flag carriers said on Friday.

The chief executive of Austrian Airlines was quoted on Saturday as saying he would be open to a majority takeover of Austria's national carrier if that were needed for it to prosper amid high fuel costs.

THY Turkish Airlines, one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe, carried 6.29 million passengers in January to April, up 14.8 percent year-on-year.

Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong's dominant airline, is considering cutting its money-losing routes because of high fuel prices, the South China Morning Post said on Saturday, citing the airline's CEO as warning in an internal newsletter.

The US government on Friday proposed to auction some takeoff and landing rights at the New York area's two international airports, as a way to boost competition, a plan that drew sharp criticism from airlines.

Plans to build a new passenger walkway at Bristol Airport have hit a stumbling block. North Somerset councillors have said the structure should be subject to a full planning application, which means conditions could be imposed, if it is approved.

British Airways head of sales Drew Crawley has warned of the inevitability of further air fare rises. Speaking at the annual Guild of Travel Management Companies' annual conference in Istanbul he said that his view was based on 'the inexorable rise in aviation fuel costs caused by surging demand for oil'.

The merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, if approved, would create one of the world's largest cargo operations, cargo leaders at both airlines claim, and prompt other carriers to quickly follow suit. "Between the two carriers, we will be the No. 1 U.S. cargo airline by far," Northwest Airlines Cargo President Tom Bach said. "We're going to have direct widebody service to every major center of commerce worldwide."

Korean Air this week made progress in its plan to develop air cargo markets in Central Asia. South Korea's largest carrier on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with state run Uzbekistan Airways to expand cooperation in international air cargo services.

Airbus delayed the A380 program for the fourth time, but this one appears not as troublesome as previous slow-downs that were related to the wiring of the aircraft. Nevertheless, the manufacturer will likely once again be required to fork over millions of dollars in penalty payments to customers.

Lufthansa Cargo, Europe's biggest airfreight carrier, boosted volume in April by 5.4 percent from a year ago as traffic on its Americas routes soared by nearly a third.

Dragged down by its sagging U.S. DHL operations and writedowns at its Deutsche Post Bank unit, Deutsche Post first-quarter profit fell 18 percent.

Biometric identification cards could be mandated for airport workers next, if legislation introduced in the House last week becomes law.

Breaking records is now becoming a broken record for jet fuel prices, which hit $3.94 per gallon in Rotterdam May 9 while striking just above $3.84 in Los Angeles and $3.82 in New York Harbor.

The Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines merger is likely to go ahead with Delta pilots voting overwhelming in favour of changes to their contracts and an influential lawmaker on aviation affairs saying the merger is not anti-competitive and likely to be approved.