Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA is ordering restrictions for Boeing 737 MAX and some 737 Next Generation models that would prohibit carrying freight in the aft cargo compartment if certain systems not critical for flight are malfunctioning.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Collins Aerospace has begun integration testing of a next-gen vehicle management computer using multicore processors.
Emerging Technologies

By Sean Broderick
U.S. Senate lawmakers are gathering information on how several carriers, including American, have managed workforce issues during the downturn while collecting payroll-relief funds.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Media reports suggest that the UK government has abandoned a planned ‘amber-watch’ category after protests from the aviation industry and wider travel sector, which had warned that introducing the new category would lead to another slump in bookings.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Menzies Aviation has today announced the appointment of three senior members to its Middle East, Africa and Asia (MEAA) team: John Henderson as Senior Vice President Operations MEAA, Gemma Sinclair as Vice President HR MEAA and Kevin Constant as Vice President Operations Pakistan.
Airports & Networks

Menzies Aviation has today announced the appointment of three senior members to its Middle East, Africa and Asia (MEAA) team: John Henderson as Senior Vice President Operations MEAA, Gemma Sinclair as Vice President HR MEAA and Kevin Constant as Vice President Operations Pakistan.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Aviation technology provider SITA is preparing to expand the deployment of new systems intended to streamline the validation and acceptance of the health certificates that will be vital for international travel to properly resume.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
New guidance from the FAA and EASA targets any operator with aircraft that have lavatory fire extinguishing bottles.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
At least 12 significant cyber security incidents affecting the aerospace industry have been made public since the start of the year.
Connected Aerospace

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. House lawmakers took steps on July 29 to advance legislation that would ban so-called flag of convenience carriers from operating in the U.S.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Aviation has been accustomed to being described as a culprit for climate change, but it should also see itself as a likely casualty.
Sustainability

By Alan Dron
Aviation sector leaders have welcomed the U.K. government’s decision to end the quarantine upon arrival requirement for fully vaccinated air passengers from the U.S. and most of Europe—but lamented that the measure is probably too late to save the summer travel season.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Collins' TransAction solution acts as an “exchange,” taking in data from the IATA Travel Pass web interface before converting and distributing the inputs to various airline’s reservation protocols and departure control systems (DCS), and vice versa.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
The US is once more experiencing busy airports and full flights as domestic leisure travel numbers surge close to 2019 levels. In their pandemic isolation, however, some Americans appear to have forgotten how to behave in public.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Australia, Singapore and Thailand describe road maps for easing border restrictions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Ferneyhough
The UK government launched a consultation July 23 to explore the introduction of mandates that would require a certain percentage of fuel on board an airliner to be sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
A pair of federal lawmakers are seeking to bolster the security of cargo aircraft flight decks, part of an effort to address a longstanding safety loophole raised by pilots of freighter aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
IATA sharply criticized the European Commission’s (EC) decision to set the continent’s minimum slot-use threshold at 50% for the 2022 winter season, slamming the move as “out-of-touch” with the harsh economic reality facing airlines.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
The UK High Court has rejected a legal challenge against the government’s handling of COVID-19 travel restrictions, which called for greater transparency in how decisions are being reached.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Although international travel recovery remains a distant prospect, some Asia-Pacific countries are looking ahead and developing scenarios for reopening their borders.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
The New Zealand government has announced it will suspend quarantine-free travel from Australia for eight weeks, effectively halting the two-way travel bubble between the two countries.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The airframer and FAA are still discussing methodology for 787 post-production inspections.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
It is high time for ICAO to integrate climate concerns into its statutes, otherwise little progress can be expected at its next general meetings, the French air and space academy (AAE) says.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
An initial project will create a digital twin of the UK’s airspace and then use machine learning to understand flight movements across the country in the hope of creating an AI system to support air traffic controllers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Mike Borfitz
With confidence in Boeing’s ODA flagging, a third-party option could provide distance from the company’s financial pressures.
Safety, Ops & Regulation