US airline passenger revenue plunged 26% year-over-year in June, the eighth consecutive month of decline, while the 20.7% drop in yield was the “sharpest” this decade, the Air Transport Assn. said yesterday.

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Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines is targeting CNY50 million ($7.3 million) in net earnings this year, a result that would dwarf the CNY11.5 million profit reported in 2008, according to Chairman Wang Junjin.

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US FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt moved to ease tension with the agency’s 15,000 air traffic controllers yesterday at a time when the agency and the National Air Traffic Controllers Assn. are in arbitrated talks over a new labor contract (ATWOnline, May 1).

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European flight crews are criticizing the EU for failing to tackle the issue of pilot fatigue, pointing out that the US has taken the lead on this perennial issue following the February crash a Colgan Air Q400 that killed 50.

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