Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Feb 26, 2018
Overall safety performance for 2017 compared to 2016, culled from IATA's 2017 Airline Safety Performance report.
Feb 23, 2018
The UK Department of Transport (DoT) will allow direct cargo flights to resume between Bangladesh and the UK, after security improvements at Dhaka airport.
Feb 23, 2018
Ethiopian Airlines has finalized the installation of an Airbus A350 XWB full flight simulator (FFS), becoming the first FFS operator of the type in Africa.
Feb 22, 2018
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has taken an important step toward building a regulatory framework to govern the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, in the region’s airspace.
Feb 22, 2018
The biometric facial recognition trial at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) has proven so successful and popular that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is actively exploring how widely facial recognition can be used at airports, a senior CBP official said.
Feb 20, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is looking to clarify its definition of what constitutes unfair and deceptive practices by an airline or ticket agent—a move likely to be welcomed by airlines.
Feb 20, 2020
Belgian air navigation service provider (ANSP) skeyes plans to gradually install remote air traffic control (ATC) towers at six airports and airfields throughout Belgium.
Feb 18, 2020
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) is raising already-approved World Trade Organization penalty tariff amounts collected from European airliners imported into the U.S. by 5% to 15%.
Feb 18, 2020
Reeling from the decline in visitorship and traffic from China because of the COVID-19 outbreak, governments in the region are rolling out measures to help airlines suffering from the slump.
Feb 13, 2020
Mergers and capacity reductions among Chinese airlines may result from the COVID-19 outbreak, as the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said it will support reorganization of the industry as part of its response to the crisis.
Feb 12, 2020
The FAA is tightening its oversight of Southwest Airlines and plans to implement 11 recommendations made in a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) audit that concluded the agency’s surveillance of the Dallas-based carrier did not follow its regulations.
Feb 12, 2020
Eurocontrol, the organization in charge of air traffic management (ATM) in Europe, has set objectives to better handle weather-related problems to prepare for a peak summer season that has proved chaotic in recent years.
Feb 11, 2020
EASA has released the first edition of its “Artificial Intelligence Roadmap,” a document that begins to answer OEMs’ questions on how to certify an AI-based system.