Ryanair, one of the lower-cost cheap flight European airlines, has equipped its flights from and to Dublin with the Mobile OnAir service, enabling you as a Ryanair passenger to use your cell phone or smartphone (e.g. BlackBerry, iPhone, HTC) during the flight, staying in touch with family, friends & business relations.

A commuter airplane flight 3407 Q400 Bombardier with 48 people aboard crashed late Thursday night into a house in a small town in western New York State near the city of Buffalo. Authorities say everyone on-board was killed as well as at least one person on the ground.

Fainting is the most common in-flight medical emergency. Research recently published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care details the number, type and frequency of medical emergencies on board two airlines.

At least 8 people have been injured, including one critical, after Northwest Airlines flight 22 encountered extreme turbulence over Hawaii.

An air hostess helped land an Air Canada jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had an apparent mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean.

In November 2007, a twin-engine 30-year-old Piper aircraft lost all electrical power on board shortly after departing from Kerry airport, Ireland for a flight to Jersey. Without any electrical power, the pilot was unable to use his radio to contact air traffic control. He was briefly able to re-establish contact with the tower using his cell phone, but that was also disrupted.

The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has announced it will take the unprecedented step of conducting a special review of flag carrier Qantas after three separate emergencies in two weeks.

I am wondering how many people may want to fly with Australian Qantas Airlines as accident after accident happen there that seriously question the safety regulations and maintenance. Now door opens mid-Qantas flight; plane makes an emergency landing. This happened TODAY, just few days after the hole opening emergency 3 days ago.

Yesterday American Airlines' CEO Gerard Arpey took the podium, and took control of a situation that the airline had failed to take control of since news of the airline's MD-80 groundings first hit the news wires on Tuesday.

American Airlines is canceling several hundred flights today to conduct additional inspections of its MD-80 fleet to ensure precise and complete compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s airworthiness directive related to the bundling of wires in the aircraft’s wheel wells. These inspections – based on FAA audits – are related to detailed, technical compliance issues and not safety-of-flight issues.

United Airlines, the world's second-biggest carrier, had to debar from flight its fleet of 52 Boeing Co. 777 long-haul aircraft after missing maintenance checks.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is on schedule in its plan to hire and train nearly 17,000 air traffic controllers over the next decade. The FAA hired over 1,800 controllers last year and expects to hire nearly 1,900 in fiscal year 2008. The details of FAA plan are laid out in the Controller Workforce Plan released yesterday.