Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 08, 2020
An FAA review of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) found that the agency does not sufficiently comply with ICAO standards, placing the countries it regulates into Category 2 of the U.S. agency’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program.
May 08, 2020
Please consider what follows confirmation of your good judgment in choosing sound operational advice, but there’s more than a little pride on our…
May 08, 2020
A former Royal Air Force chief has been selected to become the future chairman of the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Sir Stephen Hillier, who served as Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force between 2016 and 2019, is set to become a nonexecutive chair of the regulator on Aug. 1, taking over from Dame Deirdre Hutton, the current chairman who has been in the role for the past 11 years.
May 08, 2020
Ask the Editors: Airline cabins are already quite safe, and many airlines now require face coverings throughout flight and in airports.
May 07, 2020
Retirements sped up, deliveries stretched out as American, Delta, Southwest, United ponder post-pandemic operations.
May 06, 2020
WASHINGTON—U.S. airlines are struggling to implement consistent aircraft-cleaning processes, with failure to follow key guidance and a variety of…
May 06, 2020
Rarely are there new ideas in Washington, just new conditions for trying old tricks—and one of the latest is a proposal for the federal government to induce new-aircraft manufacturing in the wake of COVID-19’s devastation throughout aviation.
May 06, 2020
The FAA has named eight companies that will assist the agency in establishing technology requirements for suppliers of remote identification services for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).