Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Mar 12, 2019
The Trump administration is requesting $17.1 billion to fund the FAA in FY2020, down from the roughly $17.5 billion appropriated for the agency in 2019, according to the White House’s budget request released March 11.
Mar 11, 2019
FAA is pressing on with planned changes to Boeing 737 MAX aircraft stemming from the October 2 Lion Air Flight JT610 accident, but has not seen any evidence from Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines’ MAX 8 crash to take additional steps, such as a fleet-wide grounding.
Mar 11, 2019
Concern that two crashes involving new Boeing 737 MAX 8s in less than five months may be linked has led operators and regulators to ground about a third of the in-service fleet while investigators work to either connect the two accidents or calm fears.
Mar 11, 2019
The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 near Addis Ababa March 10 has triggered voluntary groundings of in-service MAX-family aircraft even as investigators only begin their work, as concerns over possible links to last October 2018’s Lion Air MAX 8 crash mount, despite evidence of any clear links between the two crashes.
Mar 11, 2019
Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) continues to see strong demand for full-flight simulator (FFS)-based pilot training, even though the industry is in its ninth consecutive year of growth.
Jul 02, 2021
The Australian government has revised its approach to COVID-19 border controls, reducing entry quotas in the short term but also laying out a phased roadmap to restoring international travel in the longer term.
Jul 01, 2021
Europe mandated that performance-based navigation should be the basis for every runway approach procedure by 2030 and the mandate is beginning to translate into meaningful changes.
Jun 30, 2021
It has emerged that the Volocopter 2X was issued a permit to fly by French civil aviation authority DGAC after receiving approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) using recently released guidelines for the design verification of drones.
Jun 30, 2021
The five-year contract maintains Raytheon’s position as the systems integrator for STARS, which receives surveillance and flight-plan data and presents the information to controllers on high-resolution, color displays.
Jun 29, 2021
European airlines and airports have sent a joint plea to the EU to come up with a single method of processing passengers’ COVID-19 documentation, fearing chaos at airports if even a truncated summer holiday season materializes.
Jun 29, 2021
IATA has requested a meeting with the government of Argentina after the country opted to lower the cap of passengers arriving on international flights.
Jun 29, 2021
The Council of the EU has given the go-ahead for three neighborhood aviation agreements with Armenia, Tunisia and Ukraine as well as a comprehensive air transport agreement with Qatar.
Jun 28, 2021
The FAA plans to mandate three modifications to Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) nacelles linked to a pair of inflight fan-blade failures that caused significant damage outside the engine and led to one passenger fatality.