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Court says inclusion of non-EU airlines in emissions trading scheme is compatible with international law. The European Court of Justice today ruled that plans to include...

Aviation emissions plan is expected to win support from transport ministers. A plan to improve co-operation between the European Union and the United States on aviation...

Talks aimed at deepening transatlantic airline market, but no resolution on ownership rights. Talks aimed at deepening competition in the transatlantic market ended today...

US investment restriction pose threat to the liberalisation of the transatlantic aviation. US investment restrictions could delay progress on an ‘open skies' deal to bring...

European companies' right to acquire equity stakes in US operators emerges as possible deal-breaker in aviation talks. The European Union wants to make rapid progress on an...

Agreement frees up routes to and from Canada; EU now hoping for similar deal with the US. The European Union is to sign an ‘open skies' agreement with Canada that will...

Easing of restrictions on routing and carriers could boost traffic, EU executive believes. The European Union and India have inked a new aviation deal that will allow...

World's biggest aviation markets agree to recognise each others' safety tests. The EU and the US have signed a new aviation safety agreement that could reduce costs for...

Second phase of liberalisation talks focuses on mergers and aligning rules governing the US and EU aviation markets. The European Commission and the United States...

The EU has signed an aviation agreement with the government of Australia to open up the possibility of greater competition and more flights on routes between the two...

Many local authorities have have systematically ignored key elements of the EU's approach to noise pollution. The European Cargo Alliance was very encouraged to read in...

The US wants to ‘even up' its cargo carriers' access to the EU. The ‘open skies' treaty between the EU and US came into force on 30 March, replacing old bilateral deals...

Jacques Barrot, the European commissioner for transport, said he would be pushing Washington to agree to a second phase of ‘open skies' negotiations in early 2008....

The German presidency is to make a concerted effort at a meeting next week (22 March) to convince transport ministers from the other EU states that they should sign up to an...

The EU and US hope to open aviation markets on both sides of the Atlantic to more competition when leaders meet for a summit on 30 April. A deal on ‘open skies',...

To the disbelief of many observers, transatlantic talks on liberalising air traffic spluttered back to life last week. The failure of diplomatic efforts during the previous...

The US has scrapped efforts to give foreign investors in American-based airlines a bigger say in their management, in an early indication that the Democratic Party's victory...

The European Commission has long been pressing for an agreement between the EU and US to open up their respective markets for passenger air transport. Such an 'open skies'...

With world trade talks stalled and differences over foreign policy, EU-US relations seem short of good news at the moment. But, according to the State Department's top...

Threats from Belarus to close off airspace to EU flights have prompted the airline industry to begin contingency planning. In a recent state-of-the-nation address, the...