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
Keep them interesting and thorough.
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

By Sean Broderick
Under the proposed budget, the FAA would spend $2.4 million in the coming fiscal year to place “senior representatives” in the UK, Mexico, Poland and somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein, Lori Ranson, Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines have long hoped for restart to transatlantic travel by summer, plans likely on hold as governments slow-walk reopenings.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
As non-CO2 effects become a major focus in aviation’s climate efforts, Eurocontrol tests contrail prevention in air traffic management.
Sustainability

By Bill Carey
The Biden administration rolled out a fiscal 2022 proposed federal budget on May 28 that seeks $18.45 billion for the FAA, $1 billion more than sought last year by the previous Trump administration.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
New travel restrictions have been put in place between France and the UK aimed at stopping the spread of the so-called Indian variant of the coronavirus, just as Eurocontrol figures show signs of a recovery in travel demand.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire and technology company Indra have formed Startical to develop and deploy a constellation of more than 200 small low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide a global air traffic management service.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Honeywell's SmartPath Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) is an alternative to the Instrument Landing System (ILS).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The FAA plans to transition a new rocket tracking capability from test to operational status in June, providing a way to reduce flight disruptions as the pace of commercial space launches increases.
Safety, Ops & Regulation