Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Nick Calio, the head of Airlines for America, talks operational readiness for the summer travel season and why flying today is better value than ever.
Window Seat Podcast

By Bill Carey, Sean Broderick
Amid several major policy and protocol changes, the agency is grappling with a high number of leaders in acting roles.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Boeing estimates that 75% of the 225 737 MAXs in the company’s undelivered inventory must be repaired.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
A preliminary report has been released by ATSB into the Coulson Aviation 737 firefighting tanker crash in Australia.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Aviation industry and environmental campaigners welcome ReFuelEU accord but stress the need for further progress.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
Breeze Airways hopes to make its international debut later this year.
Airports & Networks

By Aaron Karp
All Baltimore-Washington Airport (BWI) TSA checkpoints now have advanced credential authentication technology units.
Airports & Networks

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

By Christine Boynton
Sunwing Vacations and Sunwing Airlines will bring 18 Boeing 737s to the combined fleet, though initially the companies will continue independent operations.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
An engine failure aboard a Longtail Aviation Boeing 747-400 spotlights the importance of keeping records on service-bulletin implementations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
Runway construction at Las Vegas’ airport is triggering significant delays for operators, creating headwinds for Spirit, the facility’s second-largest operator.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The FAA plans to complete key revisions to system safety assessment procedures by late 2024.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France’s public prosecutor has launched an appeal after a Paris court verdict cleared Air France and Airbus of charges from the 2009 crash of AF447.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
U.S. airlines await a decision from the U.S. DOT on a proposed ancillary rulemaking Frontier Airlines has dubbed "a solution searching for a problem."
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
Conditions imposed on the Avianca-VIva merger include the return of slots at Bogota El Dorado and placing a fare ceiling on certain routes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
If antitrust concerns in Brussels scupper the takeover deals dreamt of by the big three European airline groups, other paths are available.
Airlines & Lessors

Emirates is set to launch a new City Check‑in and Travel Store located in ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA has formed an independent safety review team and given it six months to study the U.S. air traffic system with an eye to mitigating risks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Since the last FAA Administrator to serve out his full term left office in January 2018, the agency has spent over half that time led by an interim top exec.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
A significant improvement in energy efficiency for a novel de-icing system has been demonstrated under the EU’s Clean Sky 2 public-private partnership.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
China will abolish the requirement for inbound travelers to present negative PCR tests for COVID beginning April 29.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
The Bulgarian startup is readying Black Swan remotely piloted cargo aircraft for flight tests.
Emerging Technologies

P. Barry Butler, Robert L. Sumwalt and Kristy Kiernan
Challenges to aviation safety need to be treated in the same way that the best academic medical institutions focus on diseases.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The stage is set for a third temporary leader to take charge amid a significant safety-improvement push and critical reauthorization process.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Certification issues are delaying Harbour Air Seaplanes’ plans to convert its fleet of De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beavers to electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility