Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Aug 05, 2019
More than 220 flights to and from Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) were canceled Aug. 5 as air traffic controllers and other aviation workers went on strike as part of the territory’s civil protests.
Aug 02, 2019
Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic received tentative approval from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) Aug. 2 to operate an expanded transatlantic joint venture (JV) between the US, UK and continental Europe.
Aug 02, 2019
The European Commission (EC) has ordered France to recover €8.5 million ($9.4 million) of illegal aid from Ryanair after it found that marketing agreements between the Irish LCC and local tourist authorities at Montpellier Airport were illegal under European Union (EU) state aid rules.
Aug 01, 2019
Southwest Airlines has established a multipath career program to train ab initio, collegiate, military and employee candidates to become first officers with the airline.
Aug 01, 2019
Fixing the latest Boeing 737 MAX flight control system anomaly flagged by FAA will not require hardware changes, and design differences between the MAX and its 737NG predecessor mean the issue presents far less risk on older 737s, ATW has confirmed.
Dec 21, 2023
Joby Aviation and NASA have simulated orchestrating 120 air taxi flights per hour in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Dec 21, 2023
The U.S. air traffic control system’s recent shortcomings underscore that a true modernization is well past due.
Dec 21, 2023
The world has not known much peace this century, but usually that has meant only good news for the aerospace and defense industry.
Dec 20, 2023
The deliverable is a list of 20 criteria that can be applied to certain software and hardware technology developed for non-aviation applications.
Dec 20, 2023
The three-person panel “will identify potential ways the FAA could better address controller fatigue,” the agency said in a Dec. 20 statement.
Dec 20, 2023
The German federal government has given up on plans to raise a domestic fuel tax only days after it first announced the proposal.
Dec 20, 2023
The court's decision was made following a legal challenge brought by Ryanair and its sister company Malta Air.
Dec 20, 2023
The FAA has granted $66.2 million to 23 airports, another tranche of cash being provided to U.S. airports via the infrastructure law passed in 2021.