The U.S. airline industry has quickly adapted to a recent decision by a Federal judge in Florida determining the mask mandate exceeds the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As market conditions begin to normalize, EU aviation regulator EASA has announced that it will no longer be allowing exemptions for cargo to be carried in passenger cabins, starting July 31.
The U.S. domestic airline market carried 926 million passengers, of which roughly 165 million—almost 20%—took flights shorter than 450 mi. (the “regional market”) in 2019.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended its mask mandate for passengers and crew until May 3, as the Biden administration continues to evaluate the impact of the BA.2 omicron subvariant.
Long-time agency official Lirio Liu will take over as executive director of FAA’s Aircraft Certification Service, replacing Earl Lawrence, who moves to the NextGen Office to become deputy assistant administrator.
Airlines and lessors are going to have to deal with significantly higher insurance costs over the coming years, as insurers try to cover what are expected to be billions of dollars of claims relating to leased airliners appropriated by Russia.
Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate have introduced a bill that would create a federal no-fly list for airline passengers who assault flight attendants and crewmembers.
The U.S. Commerce Department sanctioned three Russian airlines—Aeroflot, Azur Air and UTair—on April 7, denying businesses or governments from doing any business with the carriers for at least 180 days.
Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is too generous to airlines and free carbon allowances to the aviation industry should be curbed, Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) said in an April 6 report.
An Air France-operated Boeing 777-300ER was involved in a serious incident April 5 when the crew experienced problems with the flight controls on final approach to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).
The Transportation Security Administration’s proposed baseline budget for fiscal 2023 would increase agency funding by nearly 16%, with a large chunk of the new money going toward greater pay and benefits for the agency’s nearly 50,000 employees.
The FAA is proposing mandatory upgrades to Pratt & Whitney PW1500G and PW1900G engines that incorporates a redesigned component developed to eliminate the risk of a condition linked to four inflight shutdowns.
In celebration of the Holy Month, Etihad Airways has teamed up with Emirati Chef Khaled Alsaadi to offer a specially curated inflight menu for the month of Ramadan.
