US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $10.2 million FAA grants to six airports to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program.

NAV CANADA—an efficiency initiative led by Canada’s air navigation services provider (ANSP)—has demonstrated the viability and safety of aircraft varying speeds and altitudes while transiting the North Atlantic (NAT) in airspace beyond the range of conventional surveillance systems.

Aircraft News-Oct. 30, 2014

The search for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) is set to accelerate in the coming days, as a third vessel transitions from survey work to searching the vast seafloor area that has been mapped out and surveyed, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.

American Airlines is not moving to a revenue-based frequent flyer program when it merges its AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles systems in the second quarter of next year, but the Dallas-based carrier is not ruling out such a change in the future.

Security regulators are not keeping pace with the needs of the air transport industry and are not ready for new challenges such as cyber attacks, according to the head of Lufthansa security.

IATA has launched a set of tools that airlines, airports and air traffic management organizations can use to help identify, assess and reduce their chances of a cyber attack.

TAP Portugal has warned it is expecting “significant disruption” from a cabin crew walkout planned for Oct. 30 and Nov. 1.