International Air Transport Association (IATA)

By Thierry Dubois
Boeing is developing a runway conflict awareness system to help prevent runway incursions, with near-term and longer-term versions planned.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
ICAO, which created Corsia, has joined an IATA-led initiative aimed at tackling the practical blockages to the supply of Corsia Eligible Emissions Units.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Brimstone, CellBlock and Lionlabs compete in the growing lithium-battery fire containment market, offering bags to mitigate thermal runaway risks on aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
SMS aimed at preventing incidents and accidents can be effective but only if an operator can ensure detailed, exhaustive data collection.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
The aviation industry faces the challenge of maintaining safety standards and effective crew training while navigating ongoing crises without overburdening pilots.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Geopolitical upheaval and policy changes are diverting flows but not damping air cargo.
Airports & Networks

By Thierry Dubois
IATA addresses runway incursions and GNSS interference as key aviation safety threats despite improving global accident statistics.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Space weather effects can disrupt aviation operations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
NorSAF and Nova Pangaea partner to build Latvia ethanol plant supplying sustainable aviation fuel production facility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Aaron Karp
Global air cargo traffic rose 4.4% year over year in August, even as key trade lanes tied to the Middle East contracted, according to IATA.
Airports & Networks

By Ella Nethersole
IATA warns high taxes and fees are squeezing African airlines, urging governments to treat aviation as an economic driver, not just a revenue source.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
IATA calls for a multilayered safety approach to address the growing risks of undeclared dangerous goods in the air cargo supply chain.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Willie Walsh discusses his successor at IATA, SAF mandates and his next career step as CEO of IndiGo.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
IATA’s ninth director general, Saadia Zahidi, will take up the role on Nov. 1.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
IATA calls for standardized e-visa verification to reduce airline burdens and improve digital travel authorization processing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
With stark warnings of more disruption at airports to come, airlines are ramping up the pressure on the European Union to rethink the latest step in the roll-out of its Entry Exit System (EES).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
IATA urges Europe to extend flexibility for EES border checks, citing operational challenges and risks of congestion if the system is fully implemented now.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Aircraft delivery delays hinder decarbonization, forcing airlines to operate older planes, increasing emissions and fuel costs, IATA warns.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
Willie Walsh reflects on IATA’s challenges, Boeing’s turnaround and the airline industry’s path to net zero as he prepares to lead IndiGo.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
Willie Walsh talks with Karen Walker about his work at IATA and why he remains optimistic about the air transport business.
Window Seat Podcast

By Karen Walker
The next IATA director general will be a woman and someone who has never worked at an airline, a wow moment for an association led by former airline CEOs for most of its history, all of them male and of European descent.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
Saadia Zahidi will be IATA’s ninth director general when she takes up the position on Nov. 1, succeeding Willie Walsh who relinquishes the role on July 31.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
EU proposes extending ETS to 5,000 km range, sparking criticism from aviation and environmental groups over extraterritoriality and carbon pricing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Outgoing IATA director general will become CEO of IndiGo soon after Farnborough closes.
Airlines & Lessors