Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Dec 18, 2018
The European Safedrone project will mount flight demonstrations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aircraft sharing low-altitude airspace in Spain.
Dec 18, 2018
British Airways will resume nonstop flights to Islamabad, Pakistan next year, more than a decade after withdrawing the route because of security concerns.
Dec 18, 2018
Pilots in northern Canada frequently take off with ice-contaminated wings, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has found.
Dec 17, 2018
UK-based long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic plans to seek a legal injunction against members of its pilot workforce taking strike action over Christmas.
Dec 17, 2018
The British government is looking to pursue greater liberalization of air traffic rights and modernize what it calls “obsolete restrictions on airline ownership” in a bid to open competition for UK and international air routes.
Feb 25, 2021
Senior transportation officials from the U.S. and Canada vowed to “reinvigorate” collaboration on decarbonizing aviation, part of a shared commitment to build back from the COVID-19 pandemic in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Feb 24, 2021
International and regional procedures have been established for the unlikely but still possible contingency of losing direction from air traffic control (ATC) in oceanic airspace, a situation that occurred in spring 2020 in airspace controlled by the FAA’s New York oceanic control center.
Feb 24, 2021
The UK government plans to set up a taskforce to decide how it can help the travel sector through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feb 23, 2021
U.S. NTSB investigators determined metal fatigue is suspected as the reason a fan blade fractured just before an in-fight engine failure suffered by United Airl
Feb 22, 2021
Global regulators and operators moved quickly to minimize the risk of another incident involving a Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 777, banning them from airspac
Feb 22, 2021
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will decommission and dispose of its TWA 800 reconstruction, which the agency has used as a training aid for nearly 20 years at its Ashburn, Virginia, training academy.
Feb 22, 2021
Japanese and South Korean carriers have suspended operations of Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000 series engines, although the limited numbers of these flying mean there have been few schedule disruptions.
Feb 21, 2021
The FAA plans to order stepped-up inspections of Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines like the one the failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 near Denver on Feb. 20.