Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Laser strike incidents against pilots increased in 2020 despite an overall decrease in air traffic operations, the FAA said March 8. Pilots reported 6
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau
Ask the Editors: Reopenings are expected to vary by region, as the distribution of vaccines and pace of vaccinations remains uneven.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
Canadian airlines have been in limbo for a year as stringent travel restrictions and a lack of government aid have hindered what little recovery there could have been in market demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
ICAO, IATA and CANSO have agreed to partner in a training program to familiarize the industry on the new Global Reporting Format (GRF) on runway surface conditions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Olivier Dassault was the son of the late Serge Dassault and grandson of Marcel Dassault, who founded the French aviation firm before World War II.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
Preliminary data released by the NTSB regarding the agency’s investigation into the Feb 20. in-flight failure of a Pratt & Whitney PW4077 on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER over Colorado confirm the fracture surface of the broken blade at the center of the event was consistent with fatigue damage.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. and EU have agreed to suspend collecting penalty tariffs on each other on imports associated with the long-running airliner subsidy dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the two sides said March 5.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
The organizations overseeing Finland’s airports and air traffic infrastructure have announced a collaboration on plans to install a remote air traffic control (ATC) system in the Nordic nation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick, Ben Goldstein, Lori Ranson, Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
The arrival of vaccines has airlines hoping they will begin to emerge from their worst crisis. But what will the industry look like?
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
The Biden administration is picking up on a British goodwill gesture associated with the long-running World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute between Europe, Airbus, the U.S., and Boeing over illegal subsidies to build large commercial aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Nichols
This week's Newsround - the programme that keeps you up to date with the aerospace and defence highlights and insights from Africa, the Middle East and India – brings news of technology leaps in air traffic management in Africa and the Middle East; sees signs of recovery with training revival in India and the Gulf.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
In a sign of progress toward sustainability goals, the aviation industry has set out a plan to achieve carbon-neutral growth by 2050.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
Larger issue of damage caused by engine failures could draw regulators’ focus.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
The Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination (ATCEUC) is urging the European Council to repeal the European Commission’s (EC) proposal on the consolidation of the Single European Sky (SES) project.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The FAA has announced the final four of five U.S. airports it has selected to evaluate drone countermeasure systems.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Industry expects actions from U.S., Europe and other governments in 2021 to encourage production of low-carbon aviation fuels.
Sustainability

Rodney Slater and Gregg Leone
The vaccines have given us back the power of “someday soon.” Now is the time for the aviation industry to think ahead.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is still yet to begin recertifying the Boeing 737 MAX, saying that major safety concerns raised have “not been fully met.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Reverse merger with blank-check investment vehicle will vault Joby to the top of the UAM valuation league.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
The immediate fallout from United Airlines Flight 328—the Boeing 777-200 that had one of its Pratt & Whitney 4077 engines fail and shower a Denver-area neighborhood with parts on Feb. 20—falls into three categories of varying complexity.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Australia’s aviation safety regulator has cleared Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to fly in the country’s airspace, although it is unclear when any airlines will actually resume MAX operations there.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines will pay the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) $49 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims stemming from fraud related to its mail-delivery contracts with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA has set the end of 2025 as its target for updating the changed product rule, issuing revised guidance on determining pilot reaction times when evaluating failure scenarios, and developing a process to ensure its engineers know when manufacturers change system safety assessments during product certification.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jen DiMascio, Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
As the Pentagon is grappling with how to maintain the F135 engine powering F-35 fighters, the engine on a Boeing airliner failed on a flight in the western U.S. Aviation Week editors discuss what these incidents mean for safety and reliability as well as the future of military engines.
Aerospace

Nadhem AlHamad
Simulators and tech-based training will be essential to affordable pilot development
Maintenance & Training