Some airports say they need the fees to help cover expenses, but the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and Experimental Aircraft Association oppose them.
With radio frequency interference now routine for commercial airlines, more is at stake than redundancy, a cornerstone of aviation safety built over decades.
Japan is looking to complete a major ATC restructure by October 2025, which will see total ATC capacity jump from 1.8 million to 2 million aircraft annually.
A traffic collision avoidance system alert was triggered Feb. 24 by lack of separation between an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 787.
An event-saturated January followed a year not short on its own challenges, and during recent earnings calls airlines projected which issues might spill over.
Investigators detail systemic weaknesses and questionable assumptions as likely contributors to a near-collision between a FedEx Boeing 767 and a Southwest 737.
Airlines operating in France will have to cancel thousands of flights early in 2024 because of a planned major modernization of the country’s ATC system.
