Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Jul 20, 2018
The Lufthansa Group will integrate sales activities in Africa for all its airlines and establish a new sub-Saharan sales headquarters in Brussels at Brussels Airlines.
Jul 20, 2018
Irish LCC Ryanair has signed a recognition agreement with the Italian union FIT CISL, which will now join ANPAC and ANPAV as a joint negotiating body for directly employed cabin crew in Italy.
Jul 20, 2018
The European Union (EU) and Latin American states have launched a new four-year, €7 million ($8.2 million), EU-funded project to enhance their ties in civil aviation, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said.
Jul 20, 2018
Henrik Hololei, the European Commission’s DG for mobility and transport—known as MOVE—has warned against a reverse “to a purely nationalist agenda,” and cautioned that Western nations risk undermining their leadership role in global aviation.
Jul 19, 2018
A US House bill has tagged a worrisome provision to the FAA reauthorization bill that would essentially regulate the size and spacing of seats on US carriers.
Jun 30, 2020
The FAA, expanding on temporary provisions issued in April, has extended relief for pilots and other certificated industry professionals who have certain qualifications, medical certificates and training due for renewal this summer.
Jun 30, 2020
The government ministry responsible for South African Airways (SAA) has withdrawn from talks aimed at fostering employee engagement in developing an operating model for a restructured SAA.
Jun 30, 2020
European Union member states have set out a list of countries from which they will gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions on non-essential travel, including Australia, Canada, South Korea and China—as long as it reciprocates—but excluding the U.S.
Jun 30, 2020
The UK government appears to be on the point of amending its roundly-criticized requirement that most arriving air travelers must self-quarantine for 14 days.
Jun 29, 2020
The FAA has authorized Boeing to begin certification flight testing of the grounded 737 MAX with an updated flight-control system.
Jun 29, 2020
The slackening of air traffic worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic offers time to take stock of what Collins Aerospace calls the Datalink Dilemma—the increasing volume of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) data sent over VHF frequencies.
Jun 26, 2020
Aviation has been in emergency mode ever since the novel coronavirus began spreading globally in late 2019. All attention has been on rescuing…
Jun 25, 2020
Former senior FAA executives are among the principals of a new company focused on advancing standards and best practices in the drone industry…