Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 30, 2019
With the chaos of summer 2018 fresh in their minds, when air traffic control (ATC) strikes and staffing problems led to widespread delays and cancellations, European airline executives are hoping operational preparations will ensure a smoother peak summer season this year.
May 29, 2019
Thailand’s aviation system has passed an ICAO safety audit as the country continues to work on improving its FAA safety rating.
May 28, 2019
US Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri), the ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is standing by his focus on the role played by inconsistent pilot training standards in the two recent deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
May 28, 2019
Hail shattered the windscreen and damaged the radome of a China Southern Airlines Airbus A380 May 26 as it approached the airspace of Beijing Capital International Airport, where it landed safely after the aircrew declared an emergency.
May 24, 2019
The leadership of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is growing increasingly concerned about TSA’s plans to divert hundreds of transportation security officers (TSO) and federal air marshals (FAM) to assist hundreds of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers already stationed at the Southwest border to address a surge of migrants there.
Nov 30, 2021
The probe into the Feb. 21 incident found risks linked to airport operator Finavia’s decision to reduce airfield maintenance staff.
Nov 30, 2021
Short-term blanket travel bans imposed on certain countries are not good news for an aviation industry that is still in recovery mode and had dared to hope that governments would adopt a more data-driven approach in response to emerging variants.
Nov 29, 2021
Operational mistakes played just as big a role in the October 2019 runway overrun of a Saab 2000 in Alaska as a latent technical issue, investigators say.
Nov 29, 2021
Passenger numbers in the U.S. reached their highest levels since Spring 2020, but new concerns about the omicron coronavirus variant could threaten momentum during the winter travel season.
Nov 29, 2021
The recovery of air travel is under threat as countries look to insulate themselves from the new omicron coronavirus strain by re-imposing travel restrictions.
Nov 26, 2021
Russia’s transport ministry has expanded the open sky regime at Kaliningrad Khrabrovo Airport (KGD), adding the seventh freedom of the air for five years with no restrictions.
Nov 26, 2021
The European Commission and UK authorities are taking steps to restrict travel from southern Africa after the emergence of a significantly mutated variant of COVID-19.
Nov 24, 2021
The European Union has put forward a proposal to blacklist transport operators, including airlines, that are involved in smuggling or trafficking of people into the EU.