When it comes to certification, major derivatives are often more difficult and sometimes as expensive and more taxing than all-new alternatives.

The Australian government has revised its approach to COVID-19 border controls, reducing entry quotas in the short term but also laying out a phased roadmap to restoring international travel in the longer term.

Europe mandated that performance-based navigation should be the basis for every runway approach procedure by 2030 and the mandate is beginning to translate into meaningful changes.

As the benefits of satellite navigation are answering pressing needs, a European mandate is to accelerate its adoption by carriers.

New European commercial flight crew mental fitness rules took effect in February as a safety response to the 2015 Germanwings crash caused by a pilot suicide.

It has emerged that the Volocopter 2X was issued a permit to fly by French civil aviation authority DGAC after receiving approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) using recently released guidelines for the design verification of drones.

The five-year contract maintains Raytheon’s position as the systems integrator for STARS, which receives surveillance and flight-plan data and presents the information to controllers on high-resolution, color displays.

Etihad Airways has extended its ‘Verified To Fly’ travel document initiative, enabling travellers to validate their Covid-19 travel documents before arriving at the airport, to routes across its global network.