Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation

May 27, 2020
Russian airlines have managed to persuade the government not to include a limit on the number of passengers on commercial flights in new coronavirus-protection guidelines. 
May 27, 2020
Figuring out how to make passengers comfortable boarding aircraft again, without having to block off middle seats indefinitely, is a problem the…
May 26, 2020
U.S. carriers are cautiously optimistic amid signs of a domestic rebound.
May 26, 2020
Worries over a loss of competition on routes between Canada and Europe have led the European Commission (EC) to open an in-depth investigation of Air Canada’s proposed acquisition of Transat.
May 26, 2020
MOSCOW—A Russian government official has confirmed that COVID-19 restrictions have delayed the certification of the country’s new Irkut MC-21 narrowbody commercial airliner.
May 26, 2020
Diminished air traffic movements force a reassessment of future manpower needs.
May 25, 2020
Domestic capacity is nearing 80% of the level of 2019. Air China and Hainan Airlines are not doing as well as others, however.
May 23, 2020
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its controversial order granting Ligado Networks access to radio frequency spectrum for a ground-based 5G network near the GPS allocation.