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PARIS -- The United Nations refugee agency said Monday that as of last year, 43.7 million people around the globe had been forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict or [...]

PARIS -- Nadjib Sirat is well aware of the risks he will face during his attempt to scale Everest, a mountain that researchers say claims at least one life for [...]

The International Monetary Fund gave its blessing on Friday to Spain's efforts to bolster its banks and reduce its budget gap. But the fund also stressed that passage of a [...]

French authorities dismantled and bulldozed a camp for undocumented migrants outside this English Channel port on Tuesday, rounding up almost 300 Afghans, Pakistanis and others who had gathered there for [...]

French officials this week will shut down a camp on the northern French coast where hundreds of Afghans, Pakistanis and other illegal migrants have gathered for years in the hope [...]

On the edges of a Salvation Army soup line in Paris, a soft-spoken Afghan boy told the story recently of how he ended up in Europe, alone. The boy, who [...]

Boeing said on Tuesday that it was prepared to go head to head with its European rival, EADS, to win a bitterly contested $35 billion contract from the Air Force [...]

In one of the few orders for civilian aircraft expected at the Paris Air Show this week, Qatar Airways announced Monday that it would buy 24 of Airbus's A320 family [...]

France and Germany said Thursday that they were giving themselves another six months to decide whether to proceed with Airbus's troubled A400M military transport plane. The transport, the single biggest [...]

PARIS -- Demand for so-called premium air travel has fallen sharply along with the economy, leading to recent announcements from airlines like Qantas and British Airways about plans to reduce [...]

Weakened by a charge for a stalled military transport plane and an economic downturn that has cut into orders for its Airbus jets, European Aeronautic Defense and Space reported a [...]

Britain's commitment to the Eurofighter Typhoon combat plane was in question on Monday after London missed a payment for a final production stage and officials met to decide whether to [...]

Continuing their efforts to curb the movement of illegal migrants and refugees, French officials said Thursday that a migrant camp here in the overgrown sand dunes known as 'the jungle' [...]

More than 120 migrants arrived Monday in Sicily after being stranded on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean for four days while Italy and Malta argued over who should accept [...]

Italy agreed Sunday to evacuate about 140 migrants from the deck of a Turkish-owned cargo ship that had rescued them in the Mediterranean Sea, breaking four days of diplomatic gridlock [...]

A Turkish-owned cargo ship that plucked about 140 migrants from two sinking boats in the Mediterranean Sea two days ago is being blocked from sailing to Italy by an Italian [...]

Dermot Mannion resigned Monday as chief executive of Aer Lingus, ending a four-year tenure during which he took the Irish airline public and battled to keep it out of the [...]

Hartmut Mehdorn, the chief executive of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator, stepped down in a scandal over employee surveillance practices. A Deutsche Bahn official in Berlin said the company [...]

Losses for the world's airline industry, grappling with its deepest crisis in 60 years, will total nearly $5 billion this year as the economic slowdown continues to shrink passenger and [...]

EADS, the European aeronautics group, returned to profit in 2008, helped by a record year for aircraft deliveries at its Airbus subsidiary, the company said Tuesday. But anxieties about the [...]

A faulty altimeter contributed to the fatal crash last week of a Turkish Airlines jet, sending a signal that caused it to slow down too abruptly, Dutch investigators said Wednesday. [...]

Two American employees of the aircraft manufacturer Boeing were among nine people killed when a Turkish Airlines jet fumbled its landing at Amsterdam international airport on Wednesday and crashed into [...]

The nine people who died when a Turkish Airlines jet crash-landed in a field beside Amsterdam's international airport on Wednesday were four Americans and five Turks, Dutch officials said. Theo [...]

A Turkish Airlines jet carrying 134 people crashed in a field on its approach to Amsterdam's international airport on Wednesday, killing at least 9 people and seriously injuring 25, airport [...]

PARIS -- Sigurdur Helgason, an Icelander whose pioneering ''hippie airline,'' then called Icelandic, made low-cost air travel to Europe possible for a generation of Americans, died on Feb. 8 on [...]

France will guarantee up to 5 billion euros in loans to help airlines finance the purchase of aircraft, a move squarely aimed at helping Airbus and its parent company, European [...]

First-class and business-class air travel continued to slip in November as companies cut back amid the global slowdown, the International Air Transport Association said Monday. Along with a sharp decline [...]

Airbus, the plane manufacturer, signaled the start of a ''very soft year'' in production on Thursday by forecasting drops in both deliveries and orders in 2009 even if world air [...]

The Italian airline Alitalia agreed Monday to sell a minority stake to Air France-KLM, cementing ties with the airline just a day before Alitalia takes to the skies as a [...]

The airline industry is expected to have collective losses of $2.5 billion in 2009, according to a forecast from an airline trade association. The report from the International Air Transport [...]

British Airways surprised Iberia and American Airlines, with which it is in partnership talks, with news Tuesday that it was also discussing a merger with the Australian carrier Qantas. Airlines [...]

At least two people were killed Thursday when an Airbus A320 jet owned by Air New Zealand crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with seven crew members aboard on a maintenance [...]

Most business executives dread a recession. But not Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, the biggest budget airline in Europe. ''We love recession,'' Mr. O'Leary said in a recent [...]

The worsening economy is squeezing Europe's flag carriers, with dwindling sales of premium-class tickets starting to take their toll. On Thursday, Air France-KLM followed British Airways and Lufthansa in reporting [...]

France has rejected a plan to participate in a joint charter flight with Britain to deport to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, 43 Afghans found without papers near Calais, officials said Tuesday. [...]

When the first OpenSkies jet took off in June from Paris for New York, the new airline was doing more than taking advantage of recently relaxed rules for flying across [...]

British Airways sent a glimmer of hope across a stricken aviation industry on Friday by raising its revenue forecast a notch, though some analysts were skeptical that any significant improvement [...]

Ryanair, the low-cost airline, reported a sharp drop in first-half profit Monday, citing higher fuel costs and the economic slowdown. Higher fuel prices accounted for half of Ryanair's operating costs [...]

Alitalia, the Italian airline, staggered back from the brink of collapse on Thursday when the last of its four major unions agreed to a rescue plan, causing an investor group [...]

Alitalia appeared to inch back from the verge of bankruptcy Monday as four of its nine unions agreed on the outline of a business plan for the carrier, but negotiations [...]

The Italian government seemed to make progress Sunday in brokering a deal that would keep Alitalia flying after concerns over the weekend that the airline might have to ground flights [...]

The future of Alitalia, the financially troubled Italian carrier, hung in the balance on Friday as investors threatened to withdraw from a last-ditch plan to keep the airline flying. Negotiations [...]