Abu Dhabi-based air navigation service company GAL rolled out its new brand at the Airport Show in Dubai with a number of key speakers at the conferences. The company is now showing as Global Air Navigation Services (GANS).
Chapman Freeborn has appointed Sharon Vaz-Arab, aviation expert with 30+ years of experience, as its new Director – IMEA (India, Middle East & Africa).
The forced diversion of a scheduled Ryanair flight by the Belarusian government over the weekend received swift condemnation from all corners of the international aviation community.
Some European airlines are changing flight paths to avoid Belarus airspace after the May 23 incident in which a Ryanair Boeing 737 was forced to divert and land at Minsk, while IATA chief Willie Walsh has praised the “calm and professional” actions of the Ryanair pilots.
Digital towers will be much more efficient at detecting and integrating drones and managing unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the future, agreed the air traffic management panel at today’s Airport Show.
Abu-Dhabi based GANS is exhibiting at the Airport Show, promoting its range of professional air navigation services, but also looking to attract UAE nationals to their scholarship programme.
The Ryanair Boeing 737-800 with about 170 passengers was on a scheduled flight from Athens Airport in Greece to Vilnius Airport in Lithuania when it was intercepted by a MiG-29 fighter jet that escorted it to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was forced to land.
The FAA has substantially completed the foundation of the $36 billion NextGen air traffic control modernization but has been challenged in distributing the benefits throughout the national airspace system.
The EU COVID certificate will be a digital or paper document showing COVID-19 vaccination status and test results, the aim of which is to encourage a recovery in European travel.
A coalition of several dozen aviation organizations showed strong support for a recently introduced bill that would establish a blender’s tax credit for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
Lufthansa has won an appeal against the European Commission’s (EC) decision to approve German financial aid to Frankfurt Hahn Airport that benefited Irish ULCC Ryanair.
The UK government has once again been accused of confused messaging over citizens traveling abroad for holidays, adding to uncertainty among current and future air passengers.
The Luxembourg-based European General Court on May 19 rescinded a total of €4.6 billion ($5.5 billion) of European Commission-approved state aid granted to KLM and TAP Portugal.
European member states agreed to open borders to international travelers vaccinated against COVID-19, with the European Council agreeing on a proposal aimed at encouraging a recovery in travel demand.
Jetex has announced expansion of its presence in Latin America, offering its local customers and international operators a wider range of seamless services and dedicated support at each location.
Harmonization of the differing European and U.S. approaches to regulating electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft is advancing somewhat, but there are concerns over the lack of information on China’s approach to approving the new class of aircraft.
U.S. House transportation committee leaders plan to dig into production-quality issues that have held up deliveries of Boeing 787s and 737 MAXs and have grounded part of the 737 MAX fleet.
The coalition of two-dozen organizations representing a broad cross-section of the aviation industry called on U.S. lawmakers to help decarbonize air travel as part of a broad infrastructure spending package now under consideration on Capitol Hill.
An immediately effective airworthiness directive (AD) set for publication May 18 will require operators of U.S.-registered 737 Classics to run a specific test to detect failure of a flap synchro wire.
