Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Jun 04, 2019
A petition circulating on Capitol Hill calling on the Trump Administration to take action on Qatar Airways over its support for Air Italy has generated a backlash from a US industry coalition including airports, cargo carriers, US travelers and New York-based JetBlue Airways.
Jun 04, 2019
IATA’s “Turbulence Aware” program is seeing respectable progress following the launch of the initiative in December 2018.
Jun 04, 2019
Hawaiian Airlines is objecting to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) decision to award it just one of 12 available daytime slot pairs to Tokyo Haneda Airport, arguing the route allocation proceeding revealed a “prevailing, longstanding bias against smaller air carriers.”
Jun 03, 2019
Operators of more than 300 newer Boeing 737s—including nearly half of the in-service MAXs—will be ordered to inspect slat tracks and remove parts identified as being from a batch that may not meet Boeing’s production requirements, the FAA and the company said June 2.
Jun 03, 2019
Qantas remains on track to place an order by the end of 2019 for an aircraft to launch direct flights from Australia’s east coast to London.
Dec 10, 2021
Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems are suspending the deadline for employees to comply with a federal vaccination mandate for federal contractors following the Dec. 7 decision by the U.S. District Court in Georgia to temporarily halt President Joe Biden’s order.
Dec 08, 2021
In their long and winding road to modernization, European players in air traffic management have made progress toward a more efficient use of airspace.
Dec 08, 2021
The proposed airworthiness directive (PAD) is to ensure affected aircraft do not have two production-quality problems that, when subjected to an intense lightning strike, could create a fuel tank vapor ignition source.
Dec 08, 2021
IATA is calling for governments to swiftly remove the latest travel restrictions imposed in response to the omicron coronavirus variant, saying the measures do not have an impact on virus transmission.
Dec 07, 2021
The Biden administration is skeptical about the benefits of immunized joint ventures (JVs), but even it will be hard-pressed to deny the merits of the proposed tie-up between Allegiant Air and Viva Aerobus.
Dec 07, 2021
The FAA on Dec. 7 released airworthiness directives (AD) requiring operators of helicopters and passenger-carrying airplanes to prohibit certain operations requiring radio altimeter (RadAlt) data when in the presence of 5G wireless transmissions.
Dec 07, 2021
The move signals Oman’s ambition of a more liberalized air traffic accord with the 27 member states.
Dec 06, 2021
NTSB is standing by its determination that a latent technical fault was the primary factor in the 2019 runway overrun of a PenAir Saab 2000 in Alaska.