Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Italian civil aviation authority ENAC, air navigation service provider ENAV and airport operator Aeroporti di Roma have signed a letter of intent to coordinate on services, technologies and infrastructure for advanced air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
Interrupted by the pandemic, the U.S. FAA’s NextGen airspace modernization program could now benefit from a slow return to normality.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Green Africa, Nigeria’s Lagos-based value airline, in agreement with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has announced the delay of flight operations to July 2021.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
U.S. lawmakers and space industry executives support a future FAA role in managing the increasing density of space debris and satellites in orbit, suggest remarks made during a hearing of the House Transportation aviation subcommittee.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Investigators working on ICAO’s probe into the forced-landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk are aiming to publish an interim report of their findings on the one-month anniversary of the incident.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
The U.S. and UK have reached agreement to suspend tariffs on large civil aircraft, bringing to an end a long-running dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
ICAO has published technical specifications for a “visible digital seal” (VDS), which is a barcode that can store validated coronavirus test results and COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Michael Bruno
The EU and the U.S. have reached an “understanding” on a dispute over aircraft subsidies that has rumbled on for almost 17 years, agreeing to suspend tariffs for five years, government officials from both sides said June 15.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

This webinar took place June 15, 2021. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson faces no shortage of challenges, from revamping how aircraft are certified to
Aerospace & Defense

By Karen Walker
If presidents and prime ministers cannot conduct their business via Zoom, they should lift the travel rules they impose on their citizens but cannot comply with themselves.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
South Korea is easing entry restrictions for certain categories of travelers, a move that could help boost international inbound traffic.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Etihad Guest, the loyalty programme of Etihad Airways, has partnered with Air Arabia’s loyalty programme AirRewards, to allow members of both schemes to benefit from reciprocal points and miles transfers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
IATA chief Willie Walsh sharply criticized the UK prime minister and the U.S. president after hopes that they would announce a reopening of air travel between their countries this week failed to materialize.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines are hoping the G7 summit in Cornwall, England, and the U.S./EU summit in Brussels will lead to North Atlantic travel corridors being put in place.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Leaders from the two countries have not set a time line on launching such an arrangement.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
DFS air traffic controllers have taken advantage of depressed air traffic to trial better ways of working and are looking at going beyond the existing “remote tower” concept.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lee Ann Shay
Before his retirement on June 30, NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt shares insights into some key things that would make the aviation industry safer—and how to do it.
Leader Interviews

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France and Spain are among the European countries that have updated their coronavirus travel restrictions in the run-up to the summer vacation season.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
IATA is saying planned reforms of the Single European Sky (SES) agreed by the European Council “will entrench the failure of monopoly air navigation service providers to tackle emissions, delays and costs.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By James Albright
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Business Aviation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The European Council has put forward a general approach on the reform of the Single European Sky (SES) aimed at improving European airspace management and its air navigation services system.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airlines have long hoped for restart to transatlantic travel by summer, plans likely on hold as governments slow-walk reopenings.
Air Transport

By Ben Goldstein
A pair of U.S. senators sharply rebuked the airline industry’s collective response to criticisms of refund policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that questions raised in a recent letter to seven airlines were not properly addressed.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Ali Bahrami spent most of his time as head of FAA’s safety and certification activities under intense scrutiny following fatal Boeing 737 MAX accidents in October 2018 and March 2019.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
EASA has expressed concerns over reduced skill levels among air traffic controllers (ATCOs) as a result of the pandemic and suggested methods by which individual controllers and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) can ensure professional standards are maintained.
Safety, Ops & Regulation