Safety, Ops & Regulation

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.

There’s new thinking about aviation carbon reduction.

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The Luxembourg-based European General Court on May 19 rescinded a total of €4.6 billion ($5.5 billion) of European Commission-approved state aid granted to KLM and TAP Portugal.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.

It’s a sign that the air transport industry is returning to some kind of normal when US lawmakers and union leaders are once again joining hands to

Even so, heavy restrictions remain in place and very few air links are actually operating in practice.

The agreement lays out how aircraft design certification and production procedures will work now that the UK has exited the EU (Brexit).

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.

The airline is one of many in Southeast Asia that are undertaking restructuring efforts and streamlining their fleets.

The electrical issues and related grounding halted momentum that the 737 MAX program was gaining following its return to service in most regions.

European airspace users have complained over what they describe as weaker performance targets imposed on air navigation service providers (ANSPs).

The end appears to be in sight for the Atlantic’s Organized Track System as airlines turn to environmentally op-timized routes.

A coalition of nearly two-dozen CEOs from across the travel and tourism industry called on President Joe Biden to take steps to restart air travel between the U.S. and the UK.

A bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers introduced a bill that would prevent the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) from issuing foreign air carrier permits to so-called “flag-of-convenience” carriers, reviving a multi-year effort to restrict foreign LCCs from operating in the transatlantic market.

After several OEMs exited the regional market, dominant airframers Embraer and ATR are devising new strategies.

Regulators, manufacturers and maintenance providers are revamping engine biocide treatment protocols in the wake of a serious incident that forced an emergency landing of an Airbus A321 at London Gatwick in 2020.

While the Australia-New Zealand travel bubble is the first in the Asia-Pacific region, demand has been slow to rebound.

Miami International Airport on May 6 announced its selection by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to serve as a test site for drone detection technologies.