Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Aug 23, 2018
Ryanair and the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA) have reached an agreement after lengthy negotiations, marking a step forward for the LCC, which is facing conflict with its workforce in several of its European markets.
Aug 22, 2018
A Red Wings’ Tupolev Tu-204, en route from Ufa to Sochi in Russia, experienced an engine surge, which caused a fire, in the left PS-90A engine while taking off Aug. 22.
Aug 22, 2018
Airline associations have jointly called on the European Commission to align the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) with ICAO’s CORSIA initiative.
Aug 22, 2018
The FAA sent a team to Vietnam earlier this month to conduct a safety assessment, according to Vietnamese regulators.
Aug 22, 2018
Satellite-based surveillance system developer Aireon and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) have started pre-registration for the Aircraft Locating and Emergency Response Tracking (ALERT) service—a means of providing the last known position of an aircraft in distress.
Aug 24, 2020
The FAA has issued separate notices seeking information from industry on providing counter-unmanned aircraft systems technology for deployment at civilian airports and for testing capacity to determine the risk associated with a large jet engine ingesting a small drone.
Aug 21, 2020
FAA’s shift to emphasizing corrective actions over civil penalties for unintentional regulatory violations needs more centralized oversight and data analysis to determine its effectiveness, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the program shows.
Aug 21, 2020
Starting Sept. 1, Singapore will allow general travel from Brunei and New Zealand, lifting quarantine requirements for arrivals from those two countries at the island-state.
Aug 21, 2020
The UK has added Portugal to a safe list of “travel corridors,” exempting arrivals from a 14-day quarantine, but removed Austria and Croatia in the latest update to British COVID-19-related travel restrictions.
Aug 21, 2020
Apollo Air Service has begun operating charter helicopter flights from England’s Cambridge City Airport, in a partnership both operator and airfield see as important for growth.
Aug 19, 2020
More than 100 abandoned aircraft, ranging from McDonnell Douglas DC-8s to general aviation types, are to be auctioned off by Kenya’s airport operator.
Aug 18, 2020
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved a request from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to reinstate flights to Birmingham (BHX) and Manchester (MAN) on board aircraft chartered from Hi Fly.
Aug 18, 2020
When the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released its first “Insider Threat Roadmap” back in May, ramifications of the novel coronavirus pandemic did not figure prominently in the document’s development.