The Eurocontrol Network Manager and the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC)—set up by the European Commission and Eurocontrol to support coordination of the response to network crisis situations—say they are monitoring the evolution of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its potential impact on European aviation.

In 20 years, China will be the world’s largest airline passenger market, the US will have fallen to second place, and India will overtake the UK as the third-largest market, according to IATA’s new 20-year Global Passenger Forecast report.

Canadian training specialist CAE has signed a deal with Japan Airlines (JAL) to train its pilots in Tokyo, giving the company presence in a new and potentially fruitful Asia-Pacific market.

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) head John Pistole will retire effective Dec. 31, TSA announced Thursday.

The European regional branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) is calling for “urgent coordination” between health authorities at a European Union (EU) level over the implementation of screening at airports and any potential risks to air travelers.

Banjul-based Gambia Bird Airlines has been forced to postpone its planned resumption of flights between London and the Sierra Leone capital Freetown Friday following the UK Department for Transport’s (DfT) decision to revoke the airline’s permit for direct flights between the two cities.

Air France-KLM Group and its pilot unions have reached an agreement over one of the most fractious aspects of the recent damaging strike by the cockpit crews.

The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has acknowledged there will definitely be European airline failures over the next three to five years, potentially including some of its members.