New European commercial flight crew mental fitness rules took effect in February as a safety response to the 2015 Germanwings crash caused by a pilot suicide.
It has emerged that the Volocopter 2X was issued a permit to fly by French civil aviation authority DGAC after receiving approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) using recently released guidelines for the design verification of drones.
The five-year contract maintains Raytheon’s position as the systems integrator for STARS, which receives surveillance and flight-plan data and presents the information to controllers on high-resolution, color displays.
Etihad Airways has extended its ‘Verified To Fly’ travel document initiative, enabling travellers to validate their Covid-19 travel documents before arriving at the airport, to routes across its global network.
European airlines and airports have sent a joint plea to the EU to come up with a single method of processing passengers’ COVID-19 documentation, fearing chaos at airports if even a truncated summer holiday season materializes.
IATA has requested a meeting with the government of Argentina after the country opted to lower the cap of passengers arriving on international flights.
The Council of the EU has given the go-ahead for three neighborhood aviation agreements with Armenia, Tunisia and Ukraine as well as a comprehensive air transport agreement with Qatar.
The FAA plans to mandate three modifications to Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) nacelles linked to a pair of inflight fan-blade failures that caused significant damage outside the engine and led to one passenger fatality.
Boeing’s long-delayed 777X program has suffered another blow after the FAA declined the manufacturer’s request for Type Inspection Authorization (TIA), citing concerns over unresolved software and hardware issues.
As the gradual lifting of travel restrictions sets the stage for a swift traffic recovery this summer, Airbus and Boeing plan on sticking to strategies that can now be described as proven.
Thailand’s Phuket island tourism sandbox is set to receive its first batch of vaccinated foreign tourists starting July 1, once the Kingdom’s cabinet approves the proposal.
IATA and the World Health Organization (WHO) are concerned that Africa could be left behind in the reopening of international air travel, with only 1% of Africans currently immunized against the coronavirus.
The UK government has marginally eased coronavirus restrictions on overseas flights, but the moves seem unlikely to satisfy either airlines or passengers wanting to travel this summer.
EASA has issued a new airworthiness directive (AD) instructing airlines to carefully check external air data probes before returning aircraft to service after pandemic storage.
The UK government is facing growing pressure from pilots and airlines over its handling of COVID-19 travel restrictions, as the travel industry held a “day of action” to call for more action and more transparency in efforts to reopen the sector.
The FAA formally unveiled its new internal safety reporting program for Aviation Safety (AVS) office employees, providing what the agency and lawmakers hope will be an opportunity to flag troublesome issues and spot trends before they become significant safety risks.
Working groups are evaluating a variety of solutions to some of the toughest issues in urban air mobility operations, including where the aircraft will operate and how they will enter and exit that airspace.
