Air travel

Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?

It’s been another day of industrial action affecting transport services.

The government is considering giving ministers a free vote on controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, according to a document seen by Channel 4 News.

Iceland’s meteorological office raises its aviation alert level to maximum after an eruption in the Bardarbunga volcano system.

Pro-Russian rebels are said to have shot down two more Ukrainian fighter jets near where Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was brought down, as the first bodies of Flight MH17 were flown to Eindhoven.

“Good mate, a good lad”: the father of Liam Sweeney, who died in the Malaysian Airlines crash in Ukraine, has talked to Channel 4 News to pay tribute to his son.

A Malaysian Airlines plane has been reportedly shot down over Ukraine, killing hundreds. Aviation authorities have warned against flying over the area in the past – but the guidance is not mandatory.

Advice issued to the US a few days ago is extended to the UK, meaning that all air-bound passengers need to ensure all electronic devices are charged before flying.

Nervous flyers: look away now. A Boeing 767-300 had to abort touching down at Barcelona-El Prat Airport to avoid colliding with an Airbus A340, which crossed the runway just as it was landing.

Ex-Prevent advisor Farooq Siddiqui says it’s “noble” for young people to want to fight in Syria but former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, Richard Barrett, says they could be radicalised.

The US government has warned its citizens in Uganda that an attack could take place at Entebbe International Airport.

Intelligence reports indicate al-Qaeda’s top bombmaker in Yemen, Ibrahim Hassan Al-Asiri, could be behind the threats that have prompted the United States to tighten airline security.

Officials in Malaysia are focusing on ‘mid-air disintegration’ as the possible cause for the disappearance of the Malaysian Air jetliner on Saturday morning.

The wing of a British Airways plane carrying 180 people tears into a building near Johannesburg airport while preparing to take off.