Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Sep 15, 2016
In preparation for a possible strike action, Hawaiian Airlines pilots opened a strike operations center near Honolulu International Airport Sept. 14, according to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing the airline’s nearly 650 pilots.
Sep 15, 2016
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed that a large piece of aircraft debris, found just off the coast of Tanzania in June, is from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in 2014 while operating as MH370.
Sep 14, 2016
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has canceled nearly 100 flights in response to a two-day French national strike, which could include the country’s air traffic controllers.
Sep 14, 2016
EASA has issued a conflict zone information bulletin (CZIB), warning that there is an anti-aircraft weaponry risk to airlines flying in Kenyan airspace.
Sep 13, 2016
The crisis of extremely long lines at US airport security checkpoints has largely been alleviated, Southwest Airlines chairman, president and CEO Gary Kelly said.
Sep 13, 2016
Major IT meltdowns like those that occurred this summer at Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines, bringing down their entire reservations systems for days, are not indicative of underlying infrastructure problems, but are related to the necessary complexity of airline systems, the chairman and CEO of American Airlines said Tuesday.
Sep 13, 2016
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends the FAA, Boeing and airlines explore and mitigate a relatively obscure directional-control problem linked to aircraft with tail-mounted engines.
Sep 13, 2016
The European Commission has proposed a single European Union (EU) type-approval certificate for aviation security screening equipment, which will replace the current system of national approvals and cut costs.