Passengers of the Continental flight, which made an emergency landing in Miami Airport after hitting a sever turbulence, thought the there was a mechanical problem with the plane, but not an air turbulence.

The air transportation industry is imperative to modern society. This industry depends, in turn, on a network of air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to manage the flow of air traffic.

THE PRESIDENT: Thanksgiving is a week from today, and Christmas will quickly follow. This is really a time of joy for our families. Unfortunately, this is also a season of dread for too many Americans. Holiday travelers faced with the prospect of long delayed and cancelled flights and lost baggage, and other problems have become all too often an occurrence.

Sweden has suspended commercial flights to and from Iraq after an apparent rocket attack against a passenger jet as it took off from the northern city of Sulaimaniyah, the Nordic country's aviation authority said Tuesday.

Whistleblowers: Troublesome Air Traffic Control Practices Continue at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport--Problem May Be Nationwide

Klyuchevskoy (pronounced Kloo-shef-skoy), a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward the Far East.

The European Commission has released a new "blacklist" that bars all Indonesian air carriers from flights within the European Union for safety reasons, a spokesman for the EC said Thursday.

Aiming to create infrastructure as fast as the growth in air traffic, the government of India is finalising a policy on 'Merchant Airport' to allow private players to build and run airports without government funding.

Vertical guidance by means of signals from the sky: this is what EGNOS, the first European satellite navigation service, will offer pilots during approach and landing.