The committees charged with overseeing transportation issues in the US will both undergo a series of leadership changes when the next Congress commences in January.

A working group of fatigue experts from airlines, labor groups, and academia has released a best-practices guide to controlled rest (CR) on the flight deck—part of an effort to provide data-supported guidance on how to create and improve pilot-napping programs.

The CEO of US independent carrier JetBlue Airways has called for greater scrutinization of large airline joint ventures (JVs), warning they can harm competition and innovation.

IATA hopes to simplify the relationship between airlines and technology providers with a platform similar to Apple’s App Store called Travel Grid.

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has called on the FAA and US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) to assist in providing information on an automated pitch-control system suspected of possibly contributing to the October fatal crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8.

No deal, botched deal, backstop. Brexit, a word not coined just a few short years ago, has become a common noun with its own set of adjectives and adverbs.

Transport Canada’s (TC’s) unwillingness to make rules without industry buy-in is keeping some of the country’s key safety issues from being addressed, the country’s top safety investigation official said.

A US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) investigative hearing into the April inflight engine failure of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 on Nov. 14 honed in on the design and testing of the CFM56-7B engine fan blades and the containment capability of the engine inlet and fan cowl.