Air Canada has reached a tentative collective agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) for the airline’s US-based workforce.

ICAO is proposing that airlines begin taking responsibility for knowing the whereabouts of their aircraft in oceanic areas by late 2016.

ICAO will have to boost its budget by 3% to pay a Web-based information database to provide airlines, air navigation service providers and member states a source of safety information about the risks to flights over and within conflict zones.

Representatives of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) believe the new European Commission (EC) lacks a vision for the continent’s airline industry.

FAA’s $15.83 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) seeks to patch holes created by chronic under-investment and the 2013 sequestration while funding what the agency calls a “continued, but measured” path forward.

Airline News-Feb. 3, 2015

Chorus Aviation, the parent company of Canada’s largest regional airline, has overhauled its business model—including securing an 11-year labor contract with its pilots.

Unconfirmed reports from officials at the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) investigating last year’s Indonesia AirAsia QZ8501 fatal crash have suggested the captain was not in his seat at the time of the incident.