An airline pilot has been suspended after being arrested on suspicion of being over the legal alcohol limit.

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Diego Maradona has returned to Naples to plead his innocence over €40m (£32m) in taxes the authorities claim he owes from his time playing for Napoli between 1984-1991.

Three apparent breaches of a no-fly zone above President Barack Obama’s holiday spot along Florida’s Atlantic coastline are being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Heathrow reported higher revenues and profits today after a record 70 million passengers used Britain's biggest airport during 2012.

It's too early to say for sure, but the current ski season, now halfway through, is looking as if it will be the one that sees a return to growth in skier numbers after four seasons of decline. Specialist travel agency Ski Solutions (020-7471 7749; skisolutions.com) is among those reporting record-breaking January sales, with bookings up 23 per cent.

Rebels have captured most of an oil field in the energy-rich north-east, the latest in a string of strategic conquests this week that also included a dam and the defences around a major airport.

Britain’s leading long-haul airlines have responded furiously to Heathrow airport’s plan to increase charges by more than three times the rate of inflation.

Passenger numbers at Heathrow Airport crept up last month despite heavy snowfall disrupting flights.

Five people, three of them children, died this morning in a plane crash in Belgium.

The powerful aviation body that dishes out lucrative take-off and landing slots to airlines at Heathrow and Gatwick has hired as chairman a board member of the embattled Food Standards Agency, which is currently facing controversy over food contamination.

The deputy chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority and former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority, Sir Roy McNulty, was today appointed chairman of Gatwick Airport.

The powerful aviation body that decides which airlines get London's valuable landing slots is close to appointing a new chairman to pilot international expansion.