In light of impending new European legislation covering emissions trading, renewable energy targets and CO2 limits, aviation industry players have demanded lawmakers set ambitious sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) targets.
The Indian government has decided to raise its cap on airline domestic operations, allowing Indian carriers to add back more capacity as demand increases.
As part of its annual Ramadan service, Emirates offers a specially curated meal served in ready-to-eat boxes to customers fasting during the holy month.
The NTSB is sending a team of seven investigators to determine the cause of the crash, which involved a 45-year-old airframe operated by Rhoades Aviation for Hawaii-based cargo carrier Transair.
The Australian government has revised its approach to COVID-19 border controls, reducing entry quotas in the short term but also laying out a phased roadmap to restoring international travel in the longer term.
Europe mandated that performance-based navigation should be the basis for every runway approach procedure by 2030 and the mandate is beginning to translate into meaningful changes.
New European commercial flight crew mental fitness rules took effect in February as a safety response to the 2015 Germanwings crash caused by a pilot suicide.
It has emerged that the Volocopter 2X was issued a permit to fly by French civil aviation authority DGAC after receiving approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) using recently released guidelines for the design verification of drones.
The five-year contract maintains Raytheon’s position as the systems integrator for STARS, which receives surveillance and flight-plan data and presents the information to controllers on high-resolution, color displays.
Etihad Airways has extended its ‘Verified To Fly’ travel document initiative, enabling travellers to validate their Covid-19 travel documents before arriving at the airport, to routes across its global network.
European airlines and airports have sent a joint plea to the EU to come up with a single method of processing passengers’ COVID-19 documentation, fearing chaos at airports if even a truncated summer holiday season materializes.
IATA has requested a meeting with the government of Argentina after the country opted to lower the cap of passengers arriving on international flights.
The Council of the EU has given the go-ahead for three neighborhood aviation agreements with Armenia, Tunisia and Ukraine as well as a comprehensive air transport agreement with Qatar.
The FAA plans to mandate three modifications to Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) nacelles linked to a pair of inflight fan-blade failures that caused significant damage outside the engine and led to one passenger fatality.
Boeing’s long-delayed 777X program has suffered another blow after the FAA declined the manufacturer’s request for Type Inspection Authorization (TIA), citing concerns over unresolved software and hardware issues.
As the gradual lifting of travel restrictions sets the stage for a swift traffic recovery this summer, Airbus and Boeing plan on sticking to strategies that can now be described as proven.
