“When consumers shop for air travel, they have a right to know how much they will have to pay.”

So said US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood after the Department of Transportation (DOT) assessed a $40,000 civil penalty against US Airways for not disclosing full ticket prices on its website.

A Canadair regional jet, with 74 people onboard was forced to make an emergency landing at the Aspen Colorado airport after smoke entered the pilot's cabin.

Irish airline Aer Lingus will not publish its 2009 earnings today as planned so it can adjust provisions for cost-cutting measures that cabin crew rejected last week.The

Turkey-based Onur Air has leased three used A330-300 aircraft from ILFC.

From March 28 2010, China Airlines will launch a new service from London's Heathrow Airport to Taipei Taoyuan Airport, becoming the only carrier to offer non-stop flights between London and Taipei.

 Allegiant Travel has announced an order for six 757-200 aircraft. They will be used to increase the number of flights that its subsidiary airline, Allegiant Air, operates into Hawaii.

Willis Lease Finance Corporation reported strong revenues, net income and earnings per share in 2009.

Aéroports de Montréal has announced its audited consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31, 2009. EBITDA totalled $151.5m for the year, down $21.6m, or 12.5 per cent, from the previous year.

UBS, the financial services firm, has upgraded its rating for Boeing from ‘sell’ to ‘neutral’ and pushed its price target on the stock from $50 to $68.

Triumph Group has acquired Fabritech, a component manufacturer and repair station for critical military rotary-wing platforms.

Continental Airline shares slumped yesterday (March 2) after the carrier said it lost $25m in revenue when a slew of winter storms in February caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

EUROCONTROL and IATA have formed an air traffic management (ATM) safety and navigation partnership. Safety-wise, the collaboration will concentrate on voluntary ATM incident reporting, with data collection, analysis and identification of main concerns taking place, and experts delivering solutions.

Gulf Air has selected TRAX USA to manage its MRO operations. The Bahrain flag carrier will implement e3, the latest version of the TRAX Maintenance MRO software.

Low-cost airline bmibaby has selected Dunlop Aircraft Tyres to provide nose wheel and main wheel tyres for its fleet of 737-300s and 737-500s.

SITA is to partner with the Spanish and Portuguese air navigation service providers (ANSP) to deliver data link infrastructure for pre-operational testing in preparation for the introduction of Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) across the Iberian Peninsula by 2013.

SITA has announced that fourteen PENS (Pan European Network Service) users - 13 Air Navigation Service Providers and EUROCONTROL - met the initial end-February deadline for the first PENS implementation phase.

Angelo Quabba has been appointed CFO of SR Technics and member of the group's executive leadership team. He assumed his new position on March 1, 2010, succeeding James Stewart, who took the position of CEO on February 1, 2010. Quabba will report directly to Stewart.

Li Kun, president of Shenzhen Airlines, has been removed from his position and is under investigation for unspecified "economic crimes", according to the airline.

UAL Corporation, parent company of United Airlines, has named Dana Sacks as VP human resources partners and talent acquisition.