The head of a group representing US flight attendants wants the FAA to form a working group to develop solutions that ensure carry-on baggage will not present an obstacle to emergency aircraft evacuations.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 turboprop was severely damaged after a hard landing at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport on the evening of May 8.

Air France plans to launch a voluntary redundancy plan for short-haul ground staff at a works council meeting May 13.

Scandinavian LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle is offering staff part-time working and unpaid leave in a bid to get around a temporary crew surplus at London’s Gatwick Airport.

The FAA has assembled a new, multi-agency Technical Advisory Board (TAB) to review the proposed software fix for the Boeing 737 MAX’s maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), the flight-control law implicated in two crashes of the aircraft type that killed 346 people over a five-month period.

French air traffic controllers (ATCs) are set to begin a 35-hour strike from 7 p.m. May 8, the third national ATC strike in Europe this year, according to Airlines for Europe (A4E).

The FAA “cannot confirm the legality” of using technologies designed to detect small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, the agency stated in updated guidance sent to US airports.

The US Senate voted to confirm three nominees to the Export-Import Bank’s board of directors, providing the export credit agency a quorum for the first time since 2015.