Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 01, 2019
With less than 18 months of FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP) left to run, officials involved are hopeful the effort will result in a framework of repeatable processes for approving complex drone operations in US national airspace.
May 01, 2019
FAA has issued an emergency order banning all flight operations by US pilots and carriers in Venezuelan airspace, citing “increasing political instability and tensions” and the “associated inadvertent risk to flight operations” stemming from the deteriorating political situation in the country.
May 01, 2019
Kazakhstan-based LCC FlyArystan launched commercial operations May 1 with flights from Almaty International Airport on six domestic routes to Taraz, Shymkent, Pavlodar, Uralsk, the national capital Nur-Sultan (Astana) and Karaganda.
May 01, 2019
New York-based JetBlue Airways, which has 60 Airbus A220-300s on order, has purchased two full-flight simulators (FFSs) for the type from training provider CAE.
Apr 30, 2019
Associations representing airports and the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) industry have formed a high-level task force to address the challenge of drone incursions at US airports.
Sep 30, 2021
U.S. lawmakers eager to see the FAA wrap up a long-awaited rework of aviation technician education standards are pressuring the agency to meet its latest scheduled release date, which is months after the deadline set by law.
Sep 29, 2021
The European Commission (EC) has warned that the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) is about to get more expensive, but ICAO’s CORSIA emissions trading scheme will be implemented with amendments to avoid double charging.
Sep 28, 2021
The FAA needs to use additional noise metrics to assess the impact of implementing performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures at airports to avoid legal challenges and delays, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended.
Sep 28, 2021
While the aviation industry and the U.S. government are continuing efforts to combat unruly passenger behavior, calls are growing louder for the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) to flex its legal muscles as a deterrent to the rising belligerence.
Sep 28, 2021
The FAA is set to begin widespread deployment of software that integrates data from several existing systems and calculates optimal pushback times to minimize delays between the gate and departure.
Sep 27, 2021
The Singapore government will set aside S$130 million ($96 million) and extend the salary subsidy program known as Aviation Workforce Retention Grant (AWRG) by another six months, as part of an effort to tide the aviation sector over into the recovery phase.
Sep 24, 2021
The FAA is citing some headway in unruly passenger incidents since implementing its zero-tolerance policy, but much work remains to be done to combat the rise in defiant passenger behavior.
Sep 24, 2021
Despite top-down recommendations from the European Council, EU member states are managing their own travel rules in different ways which has created confusion.