Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France’s ban on domestic flights on routes for which rail alternatives of less than 2.5 hr. exist has taken effect as part of French efforts to decarbonize.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
Accidents are becoming more survivable, meaning regulators are doing their jobs, but finding additional improvements has become more challenging.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Earl Lawrence
To succeed, innovators must cultivate confidence among regulators, the flying public and investors.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
An Indian court has rejected efforts by lessors to overturn a moratorium placed on the reclamation of aircraft operated by Go First.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Clean Sky 2’s Distributed Electric Propulsion Scaled Flight Demonstrator is a write-off after a fire during tests at the Netherlands aerospace research center.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson
A U.S. federal judge has ruled the more than two-year-old alliance is anticompetitive and has ordered the carriers to permanently cease the agreement in 30 days
Airlines & Lessors

Aviation Week Network Staff
Aeroflot Group and S7 Airlines have called on Moscow to review its prohibition on wet leasing as the number of airworthy aircraft in Russia gradually shrinks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo
Validation tests will continue through the remainder of the year and amass a “large” number of cycles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Despite bullish forecasts, China's international passenger flights were at just 30% of pre-pandemic levels as of April.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
With just hours to spare before a work stoppage could begin, WestJet Group and its pilots reached a tentative agreement on a contract.
Airlines & Lessors

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Bill Carey
Aerospace Industries Association chief Eric Fanning joins our reporters to talk about the FAA's leadership woes and chronic underfunding of ATC.
Check 6

By Adrian Schofield
The EC has concerns about the proposed merger’s effect on competition on certain routes between South Korea and Europe that are served by both carriers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
CASA has lost a lot of experienced technical staff over the past 10 years, said Darren Dunbier, Virgin Australia’s general manger for engineering operations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
German aerospace center DLR is planning a new facility for full-scale crash and impact testing of helicopters and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
The findings are behind a May 11 airworthiness directive (AD) issued by EASA on the A380.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
Authorities in Bangladesh have rejected a proposal to grant fifth freedom rights to United Arab Emirates-based airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Jens Flottau
Airbus has opened its Safety Promotion Center, informing visitors about accident rates and causes, as well as action the industry has taken to improve safety.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The diversity of use cases for uncrewed traffic management requires a new approach to prioritizing airspace access.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Alan Dron
Senior government ministers from the U.S., U.K. and Canada will chair the SAF Investor Summit.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Merlin Labs is working with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority to certify its autonomous flight system in the Cessna Caravan.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Amy Spowart
Expanding the workforce is about addressing systemic barriers to talent—a change that can improve the aviation industry.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Aaron Karp
Avianca said Aerocivil’s conditions for approving the proposed merger would “make Viva’s recovery impossible and could even affect Avianca’s stability.”
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
A May 11 airworthiness directive requires A380 operators to calculate “factored time on ground” and conduct inspections based on Airbus’ revised criteria.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Aviation regulators from Japan and South Korea have held their first bilateral talks in a decade
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
A near-unanimous vote from pilots represented by the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has authorized potential strike action.
Airlines & Lessors