Rolls-Royce is developing software to address a “design issue” that puts certain Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s at risk of fuel flow restrictions under certain conditions.
More than two years after it shut its borders to non-residents, Hong Kong is finally allowing international travelers to enter the city starting in May, although still retaining test and quarantine requirements.
Juan Carlos Salazar, secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), met with regional stakeholders in Nairobi in December to discuss way to accelerate the recovery of African air connectivity.
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is ready to appeal a recent decision issued by a Florida court that abolished mask mandates, while the FAA has opted to make its zero tolerance against unruly passengers permanent.
A one-month preliminary update on the March 21 fatal crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) offers few new clues that explain the accident sequence and no information from the aircraft’s onboard recorders.
The governments of Singapore and New Zealand have signed a memorandum of arrangement (MOA) to drive the development of sustainable aviation between the two countries.
A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320 had three thrust reverser doors deploy during a go-around at Copenhagen earlier in April, forcing the crew to declare an emergency before safely landing the aircraft on a subsequent attempt, a preliminary Danish Accident Investigation Board report said.
After more than two years of being required to wear a mask to fly, U.S. passengers and aviation employees discovered on Monday that they could go mask-free in an abrupt about-turn that caught everyone by surprise.
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.
