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).

Angolan fixed wing and rotary aircraft operator, Bestfly, has won a three-year contract to support ExxonMobil’s requirements to ferry staff from Luanda to its main oil logistics base at Soyo.

Signs of domestic recovery are emerging in Asian markets such as China, South Korea and Vietnam, although many others remain in decline.

Ground trials of fiber-optic-based rotor blade sensing technology could lead to flight trials in the coming years.

A set of recommended guidelines on public hygiene safety measures for air travel is expected to become public by early June and will likely include the wearing of face coverings from airport arrival through departure.

The varying severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in different Southeast Asian countries means that air travel across the region is recovering at uneven rates.

FRANKFURT—Airbus plans to increase its research into how health-protection technology inside passenger aircraft cabins can be improved, the OEM’s executive vice president of engineering Jean-Brice Dumont told Aviation Week.

SINGAPORE—The governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are developing guidelines for the resumption of “essential” air travel as well as maintaining smooth and open supply chains with each other.