EASA has expressed concerns over reduced skill levels among air traffic controllers (ATCOs) as a result of the pandemic and suggested methods by which individual controllers and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) can ensure professional standards are maintained. 

Under the proposed budget, the FAA would spend $2.4 million in the coming fiscal year to place “senior representatives” in the UK, Mexico, Poland and somewhere in Southeast Asia.

Airlines have long hoped for restart to transatlantic travel by summer, plans likely on hold as governments slow-walk reopenings.

As non-CO2 effects become a major focus in aviation’s climate efforts, Eurocontrol tests contrail prevention in air traffic management.

The Biden administration rolled out a fiscal 2022 proposed federal budget on May 28 that seeks $18.45 billion for the FAA, $1 billion more than sought last year by the previous Trump administration.

New travel restrictions have been put in place between France and the UK aimed at stopping the spread of the so-called Indian variant of the coronavirus, just as Eurocontrol figures show signs of a recovery in travel demand.   

Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire and technology company Indra have formed Startical to develop and deploy a constellation of more than 200 small low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide a global air traffic management service.

Honeywell's SmartPath Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) is an alternative to the Instrument Landing System (ILS).