Safety, Ops & Regulation

Yakovlev flew the second prototype of the so-called import-substituted MC-21-310 narrowbody airliner from its facility in Irkutsk, Russia, on Oct. 28.

President Javier Milei administration’s reforms in the country’s aviation sector remain intact, for now.

Violent regional conflicts, an unreliable supply chain and delayed aircraft are driving Emirates’ strategy to control or produce as much as possible in-house.

UK regional carrier Eastern Airways has suspended operations, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirms.

Nigeria’s Air Peace takes a major step with its inaugural first flight from Nigeria’s capital Abuja to London Heathrow.

EASA flight standards director Jesper Rasmussen has outlined a “radical change” to the certification of new general and regional aviation aircraft technologies.

Indonesian and Turkish aviation regulators have concluded consultations that could expand the existing air services agreement between the two countries.

Authorities have recovered most of the AirACT 747-400 converted freighter that overran the runway at Hong Kong International Airport in the early hours of Oct. 20, leaving two ground personnel dead.

Alaska Air Group said a failure at its primary data center was behind a systemwide ground stop of Alaska and Horizon Air flights that lasted several hours.

Austrian Airlines’ will resume Vienna–Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport service; more destinations in Iran and possibly Syria are being considered.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has begun the process of transferring airport slots and traffic rights held by Korean Air and Asiana Airlines.

Brunei’s Department of Civil Aviation has amended its Part 21 certification regulations to include the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) among its list of recognized regulators alongside the FAA and EASA.

A bipartisan push by U.S. lawmakers to force the FAA to require ADS-B In continues to gain momentum.

Korean Air has purchased an 11% share in WestJet’s parent companies, joining alliance partner Delta Air Lines in acquiring a stake in the Canadian LCC.

The UK government has confirmed that a preferred Heathrow Airport development scheme will be chosen by the end of November.

Runway lighting and the controllers’ use of the airport surface movement safety net stand out in the preliminary report on the Sept. 21 incident.

Aircraft with the necessary equipment and permission are now able to land at Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN) using more efficient curved approaches.

Taxes and fees applied on passengers are prompting a rallying call from Latin American airline executives for governments and others to address the situation.

The long international nightmare is over: The commercial aviation manufacturing upcycle is finally, believably happening.

U.S. airlines were among the businesses affected by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, with impacts that varied brand-by-brand.

Iraqi Airways has added 13 new aircraft to its fleet as part of a wider effort to modernize the country’s aviation sector.

Eurocontrol, the organization in charge of air traffic management in Europe, is predicting solid traffic growth until 2031.

A Boeing 747 freighter operated by AirACT skidded off the runway while landing at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) and crashed over a sea wall, hitting a ground vehicle on its way.

The FAA has approved Boeing’s request to increase 737 MAX production to 42 aircraft per month.

If the U.S. air transport system is reduced to chaos by the shutdown, the public—and the businesses that depend on air transport of people and cargo—will be angry.