Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Aug 18, 2014
Finnair is aiming to conclude cost-savings negotiations with its pilots by Sept. 7 and is proceeding with plans to outsource 540 cabin crew positions.
Aug 15, 2014
Ukraine’s State Aviation Administration is requiring Russian airlines, Aeroflot and Transaero, to get permission for each flight over Ukraine.
Aug 14, 2014
A Flybe Bombardier Q400 was involved in a serious incident at Belfast Airport after the captain’s prosthetic arm detached during the final stages of the flight.
Aug 14, 2014
Wildlife mitigation experts are working with FAA to develop a new basic standard for calculating bird-strike risk at airports that would replace the decades-old measurement of strikes per 10,000 movements.
Aug 13, 2014
Virgin America flight attendants have voted in favor of union representation with the Transport Workers of America (TWU).
Aug 13, 2014
FAA has opened the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test site program—the sixth and final site.
Aug 12, 2014
All IrAn-140s have been grounded following the crash of a Sepahan Airlines aircraft on Sunday in Tehran that killed at least 39 people, according to Head of Civil Aviation Organization of Iran Alireza Jahangirian.
Aug 12, 2014
Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in California-based sustainable biofuel developer Fulcrum BioEnergy as part of the airline’s biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon-neutral growth from 2020.