The CEO of London Heathrow Airport has accused the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of failing to understand how much funding is required to operate a major airport. 

Sometimes, the U.S. Congress gets it right. Several requirements in a sweeping 2020 law aimed at improving FAA’s safety oversight offer a few examples.

ATM players know that digitalization can help them drive broader sustainability and flexibility improvements across the sector.

Eurocontrol member-states have selected Raul Medina Caballero, Spain’s director general of civil aviation, as the network manager’s next director general, as of Jan. 1, 2023. 

The FAA is kicking off consideration of a Republic Airways request to provide an exemption for graduates of a tailored program in its training academy that would allow them to qualify as airline pilots with 750 hr. of flight experience.

In an effort to mitigate the effects of Western sanctions imposed in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government has outlined a plan to reconfigure the country’s commercial aircraft fleet in favor of domestically produced airliners by 2030. 

The European Parliament’s Transport Committee has approved legislation that includes a more ambitious sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate than one originally proposed by the European Commission’s “Fit for 55” climate package.  

Russia’s largest cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo is looking for ways to continue its sanctions-interrupted operations outside the country.