A bitter, month-long dispute at Air Madagascar that grounded most of the carrier’s fleet for weeks finally ended on 17 July, following successful negotiations between the carrier and the ITF-affiliated Syndicat General Maritime de Madagascar (SYGMMA).

ITF youth leaders meeting in in Washington DC, USA last week participated in the global action day by US cabin crew union AFA-CWA for a fair contract at United Airlines.

Tomorrow’s FC Barcelona presidential elections are likely to seal the fate of any further sponsorship deal by Qatar Airways (QR), according to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). The ITF says that the gulf between the airline’s treatment of staff and the club’s strong social ethos is now so huge that it will figure in the choice of president by its 70,000 members, who will go on to vote in October on any further sponsorship.

A union training facility in Washington is the setting for the ITF young transport workers’ summer school this week.

Forty-one of the ITF’s civil aviation affiliates from 22 countries agreed on 26 June to develop a global union strategy with strong national and regional pillars to fight against the damaging impact of the growing use of flags of convenience (FOCs) in the aviation industry.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered national airline Avianca to pay an unprecedented estimated USD2 million – and to pay it this week – to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits over a decade in a long-term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s national airline, Avianca, to pay an unprecedented sum estimated to be around USD2 million to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits in a long term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.

In a dramatic judgment today, the ILO (International Labour Organization) found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways (QR), to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination.

Geneva-based United Nations agency the ILO (International Labour Organization) today found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways, to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination. The case was successfully brought against Qatar by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) (see http://goo.gl/Ka5inH.)

The civil aviation branch of the ITF-affiliated federation of transport CGT in France has condemned the award of the French Legion d'Honneur to Akbar al-Baker, Qatar Airways group chief executive, for 'services to aviation', because of the airline’s discriminatory and unacceptable treatment of its staff.

Activists from the Scottish TUC and Scottish football fans took to the Edinburgh streets on Friday, protesting about migrants' working conditions during a Scotland-Qatar friendly football match … and the ITF joined in.

The first strike held by a Libyan civil aviation union - which affected all the country's airport operations - was suspended on 1 June after one week to allow injured people to leave for medical treatment.