Air Traffic Control

By Christine Boynton
With two merger attempts in the rearview mirror, the carrier is focused on moving forward, challenging its past with its vision for the future.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Eve Air Mobility has chosen the name Vector for its in-development urban air traffic management solution, with first deliveries now planned for 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
The collaboration shows the promise of broadening traffic surveillance capabilities to aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
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.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
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.
Airlines & Lessors

Sharon B. DeVivo
The current controller shortage has resulted in the need to explore additional training options.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Readers write about 737-9 door plugs, ATC training standards, the Perseverance Mars rover, celestial navigation and GPS, and “rejiggering.”
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Sean Broderick
Investigators detail systemic weaknesses and questionable assumptions as likely contributors to a near-collision between a FedEx Boeing 767 and a Southwest 737.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Wisk Aero has updated its concept of operations for autonomous urban air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

Robert W. Mann, Jr.
The U.S. air traffic control system’s recent shortcomings underscore that a true modernization is well past due.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup AIBOT has been gaining attention for its plan to integrate AI into its planned family of eVTOL vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
The report on the Dec. 31, 2022, incident at Bordeaux Airport spotlights a widespread issue that has gone relatively unnoticed so far.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
An independent report flagged four general areas as places to target to make U.S. airspace safer and more efficient.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
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.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
Closing gaps in the available staff versus system demand will take years due to several limiting factors.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey, Aaron Karp, Victoria Moores
Tune in to hear Aviation Week editors analyze air traffic control failures and how new tech could help resolve future problems.
Window Seat Podcast

By David Casey, Victoria Moores
Listen in as editors discuss the initial findings of a NATS report into the “one-in-15 million” event that caused UK air travel chaos.
Window Seat Podcast

By Victoria Moores
A preliminary NATS investigation into the Aug. 28 meltdown has traced the problem to a flight plan processing sub-system.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
The Jacksonville facility is one of 20 en route FAA ATC centers in the U.S.
Airports & Networks

By P. Barry Butler
Programs are adapting to prepare students to work the advanced air mobility industry as engineers, air traffic controllers, pilots and more.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
UK air navigation service provider NATS plans to establish a new back-up air traffic control tower for London’s Heathrow airport.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
It was a rocky start to summer for U.S. airlines and travelers, with weather and system constraints testing operational resilience plans.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
U.S. airlines are now entering the much-anticipated post-pandemic summer of high demand.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Robert Sumwalt
For safe operations, all hands need to be on deck.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
FAA says it is retiring less efficient air traffic control flight paths dependent on ground radar.
Airports & Networks