Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 13, 2019
Delta Air Lines is standing by a campaign to dissuade its flight attendants and baggage handlers from unionizing, saying that a union would interfere with the “direct relationship” between airline management and employees.
May 13, 2019
No one was hurt when a Myanmar National Airlines Embraer E190-100 landed at Mandalay with its nose gear jammed in the raised position.
May 12, 2019
International Aviation Services Organization (IASO) has received International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recognition as an accredited organization at the ICAO 218th council session held recently in Montreal, Canada.
May 10, 2019
French air accident investigation bureau BEA is gearing up for a new search phase in Greenland, still hoping to find a key fragment of the Air France Airbus A380 engine that lost its fan in flight on Sept. 30, 2017.
May 10, 2019
A simulator session flown by a US-based Boeing 737 MAX crew that mimicked a key portion of the Ethiopian Airlines ET302 crash sequence suggests the Ethiopian crew faced a near-impossible task of getting the aircraft back under control, and underscores the importance of pilots understanding severe runaway trim recovery procedures.
May 10, 2019
UK airline passengers could be better protected if their airline collapses under proposals set out following a review of airline insolvency commissioned by the Department for Transport in the wake of Monarch Airlines’ 2017 collapse.
May 10, 2019
The US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will consider former Delta Air Lines executive and Air Force veteran Stephen Dickson’s nomination for FAA administrator May 15, paving the way for the agency to receive its first permanent leader since January 2018.
May 09, 2019
Each year, a handful of cities, counties or states contemplates higher taxes on jet fuel to raise funds for projects that do not benefit the flying public or shippers, such as construction at airports used solely or predominantly by owners and operators of private aircraft.