Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The FAA has issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin alerting aviation manufacturers, operators and pilots to the potential adverse effects of new 5G wireless networks on radio altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Gulf Air has launched a private charter services under the title of “Boutique Charters”.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
A multi-part salvage operation has recovered the flight and cockpit voice recorder, engines, and major fuselage sections of the TransAir Boeing 737-200 freighter that ditched offshore near Honolulu in July, the NTSB said Nov. 2.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Qatar Airways has revamped its “Beyond Business” corporate rewards programme to offer benefits to more businesses.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Richard Kucera
Organization designation authorization designees need to manage effectively, empower ODA unit members and not interfere with their work.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s Harbour Air Seaplanes has received C$1.6 million ($1.3 million) from the British Columbia government to support plans to electrify its fleet of aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
The Australian government is taking another important step in restoring international travel by allowing fully vaccinated Singaporean citizens to enter Australia without quarantine.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Peaford, Mark Pilling
Boeing’s global forecast offers both good news and bad for the different regional markets in MEASA. In this week’s Newsround, Alan Peaford looks at the figures and questions how this will correlate with the impending shortage of pilots and engineers.
Aerospace

By Ben Goldstein
A federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit from Southwest pilots seeking to block the airline from implementing an employee vaccine mandate.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Reports of people pointing lasers at aircraft as of mid-October had exceeded the total number of reports received last year, reaching the highest number of laser-strike incidents since 2016, according to the FAA.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Gulf Air has successfully completed the internationally recognised, biennial IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) plans to become the first primary airport serving a European capital to have a remote air traffic control center.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
The airline says the alliance with American Airlines enables it to grow in the capacity-constrained New York market well beyond what it otherwise could.
Airlines & Lessors

India has started new entry regulations for international arrivals as global vaccinations have increased.
Air Transport

Delhi based Vistara has entered a reciprocal partnership with Lufthansa for its frequent flyer programme.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first five-bladed H145 to Milestone Aviation and Al-Sharqiya Aviation, which will operate the helicopter in the Sultanate of Oman for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services missions.
Aerospace

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore will expand its vaccinated travel lane (VTL) program to Australia and Switzerland starting Nov. 8, as the country gains confidence in opening up its borders to foreign visitors.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Oman Air will resume flights between Muscat and Paris from 31st October 2021.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Europe’s airlines are calling for updated travel rules to fit the new recovery phase.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The European Council has called for further coordination to facilitate free movement within and travel into the EU, following a meeting of European leaders Oct. 21 and 22 in Brussels.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
A new FAA safety alert spotlights the risk of inadvertently activating the go-around mode on Boeing 757s and 767s, urging operators and training providers to make sure pilots are aware of the scenario and its role in the 2019 fatal accident of an Atlas Air 767.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Switzerland’s air navigation service provider Skyguide is seeing the country as a laboratory for European air traffic management (ATM), as a reorganization program and accompanying system change in the country are well underway.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airlink has inaugurated its Johannesburg – Luanda air service.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
The FAA has proposed a new regulation that would provide an extra hour of rest to flight attendants in between shifts.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA plans to implement new training and several revised processes that ensure issues flagged by its maintenance inspectors are both accurately identified and properly addressed through safety systems.
Safety, Ops & Regulation