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British Airways will switch its Sydney-Singapore-London services from Heathrow's Terminal 3 to the newer Terminal 5 in April this year, after its joint venture alliance with Qantas winds up at the end of March.

Etihad is boosting its Brisbane-Singapore-Abu Dhabi flights to a daily schedule, adding extra options for Virgin Australia frequent flyers heading from Queensland to Singapore or connecting onward via Abu Dhabi.

American Airlines and Republic Airways Holdings have signed a 12-year capacity purchase agreement for Republic to provide large regional aircraft that will fly with the American Eagle livery.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected United Continental Holdings Inc's (UAL.N) attempt to throw out a lawsuit accusing the world's largest carrier of taking benefits away from some of its most loyal fliers.

Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau said on Friday it would send two investigators to Seattle as part of the probe of the battery problem on Boeing's (BA) 787 Dreamliner.

India's second biggest carrier Jet Airways, close to a tie-up with Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways, swung to a quarterly profit of INR850 million rupees ($15.98 million) on Friday on lower costs and rising fares in an under-serviced market

While the grounding of Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner jets did not have a "significant impact" on the company's latest earnings, it has cost the largest operator of those aircraft in lost revenue.

Kristin Chenoweth was reportedly the victim of airline abuse after boarding an American Airlines flight from Dallas to L.A. The Emmy award-winning actress was allegedly reduced to tears when a flight attendant accused her of not completing the correct paperwork

Stockholm-Arlanda airport is situated 37km north of Stockholm and 40km southeast of Uppsala in the Sigtula municipality of Sweden. It is one of the top three airports in Scandinavia by size and is the largest airport in Sweden.

Europe and the US are home to most of the world's 10 oldest airports.

Mactan-Cebu international airport is the second busiest airport in the Philippines, after Ninoy Aquino international airport. Mactan-Cebu airport is located at Mactan Island's Lapu-Lapu City, which is 15km east of Cebu City in the Visayas region.

Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), located 13km south-east of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is owned and operated by Fort McMurray Airport Authority

The Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) is located in Hebron, Kentucky in the US.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in Wake County, North Carolina, US, has had its modernised Terminal 1 opened, marking the end of several development projects at the facility over a 20-year period.

St. John's International Airport is located 5.6 km northwest of St. John's, the provincial capital of both Newfoundland and Labrador.

The global economic downturn has slowed growth at major airports in the US and Europe, paving the way for more Asian and Middle Eastern airports to break into the top ten for passenger traffic levels. Based on passenger traffic stats for the first five months of 2012, airport-technology.com presents the ten busiest airports in the world.

The rising popularity of mammoth aircraft has led to a drastic need for runways long enough to cater for them. As airports adjust to handle aircraft such as the Airbus A380, airport-technology.com profiles some of the world's longest commercial runways. Whether constructed out of asphalt or concrete, runways across the world are getting longer.

China has breathtakingly high airports, hosting eight of the 10 highest altitude airports in the world, including the world's highest Daocheng Yading Airport 4,411m above sea level.