Climate change is fueling a race for once-inaccessible Arctic resources, but the rapidly thawing ice poses a growing risk of accelerating global warming by releasing huge stores of eons-old carbon into the atmosphere. Unmanned aircraft are beginning to play a key role in monitoring the changes in these vast and remote areas.

Industry has become used to first orders coming from the Middle East

While campaign promises must always be viewed cautiously, it appears that the overthrow of Australia's Labor government will benefit airlines in a few key areas. Most notably, the new Liberal-National Coalition government has signaled that it will throw out a carbon tax that has been severely hurting airline profits.

Foreign companies are heavily involved in China's efforts to reduce airspace congestion

Kuang-Shih Yeh is minister of transportation and communications.

It is no exaggeration when I say the eyes of the aviation world will be fixed on this month's Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal. This meeting will set the stage for world aviation for years ahead and generate the economic conditions that are needed for this vital global industry to grow. It will tackle many challenges that should not be underestimated: in safety, security, air navigation, global competition, market access and of course, the environment.

On Oct. 29, 2001, Embraer rolled out the 170, the first in a new family of passenger aircraft that were later dubbed “E-Jets.” It was an inauspicious time to be investing. The 9/11 terrorist attacks the month before had sent the aviation industry reeling, and the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology proclaimed “Airlines, Airports & MRO Under Siege.” But as much of the industry retrenched, officials at the Brazilian aircraft builder pressed ahead with an aggressive development schedule.

Air Nostrum attempts to get back on the path to profitability