Every aircraft and every route are unique. Aircraft with identical configurations have varying characteristics and accounting for these dynamic factors, automatically, when assigning aircraft to specific routes yields savings while maximizing efficiency and improving robustness.

Dutch national carrier KLM is to improve the utilization of its flight simulator capacity at its Amsterdam base.

Pilot representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of aircraft and crews from Qatar Airways to fill gaps in BA’s schedule caused by a long-running industrial dispute at the UK national carrier.

A pilot in an Air Canada Airbus A320 was apparently confused by the view through the windscreen on approach to San Francisco International Airport, leading to a near miss with aircraft lined up on a taxiway.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is expanding its federally mandated rollout of facial recognition biometric exit technology to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) division said July 11.

The single largest benefit to airlines and consumers that has occurred in the history of commercial air transportation began as a concept that crystallized into the US model known as Open Skies.

Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has told passengers they can once again bring personal electronic devices (PEDs) larger than mobile phones into the cabin on US-bound flights.

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced its president and CEO David Melcher is leaving to pursue other interests, effective Dec. 31.