A handful of unions representing tens of thousands of U.S.-based aviation workers called on the U.S. Transportation Department to deny Wizz Air’s request for a foreign air carrier permit over allegations of an “anti-union” corporate culture.
Volocopter has taken another step toward its goal of operating a commercial electric air taxi service during the 2024 Paris Olympics by conducting a series of test flights in France to measure its aircraft’s acoustic signature.
Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor is looking at adding electric air taxis to its lineup of compact cars and motorcycles and targeting markets such as India through a partnership with Tokyo-based startup SkyDrive.
Hackers can deny users service and encrypt ransomware or spyware on a computer, flood a computer or network so it cannot respond, gain access to a user’s data or insert themselves into a two-party transaction, gaining access to unencrypted content.
Not surprisingly, most North Atlantic flight procedures haven’t changed, which represents some good news. The bad news is that there are issues that have not disappeared.
With the goal of being able to develop tourism sustainably, Air Greenland has partnered with lessor Avolon to explore the potential for zero-emission domestic air travel using Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 electric air taxi.
Honeywell is teaming up with Universal Weather and Aviation, an international trip provider, to integrate flight planning and trip support data into Honeywell Forge for business aviation.
Viasat and Inmarsat, the U.S. and UK satellite-based services providers, have promised the British government they will boost overall research and development spending there by 30% after their proposed merger.
The U.S. Commerce Department has singled out Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Gulfstream G650ER business jet and 99 airliners for apparently violating export controls the department imposed following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
