Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 04, 2018
Airlines for Europe (A4E), which has been lobbying to reduce aviation taxes in eight European countries, has said that when Austria cut air travel taxes in half at the beginning of this year, Austrian Airlines saw a 13% increase in passenger growth in the first quarter alone, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
May 04, 2018
Today's news that Air France-KLM CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac will offer his resignation next week raises questions.
May 04, 2018
Air France-KLM CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac will submit his resignation next week after a majority of Air France employees rejected a pay proposal in a staff-wide consultation that had been his high-stakes bid to extract the airline from a costly labor relations crisis.
May 04, 2018
ICAO has signed an MOU with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to cooperate on international air transport security.
May 04, 2018
ICAO is involved in moves that could lead to improved aviation cooperation between North and South Korea.
May 03, 2018
The US National Transportation Safety board (NTSB) has released evidence from its ongoing investigation of an incident at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on July 7, 2017 in which an Air Canada Airbus A320 that was cleared to land mistakenly lined up on a parallel taxiway, then barely avoided a disaster.
May 02, 2018
The pilots of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 diverted to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and landed safely on May 2 after a window cracked in flight.
May 02, 2018
Three months after several airlines banned “smart” luggage with non-removeable lithium ion batteries, one of the technology’s leading manufacturers, New York-based Bluesmart, has called it quits.