WASHINGTON—A U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the Boeing 737 MAX’s certification underscores the inadequacy of communication between Boeing and the FAA that helped set the stage for two fatal accidents and the model’s ongoing grounding.
EASA has pulled operator approvals for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Vision Air International, a Karachi-based charter and cargo carrier, in the aftermath of Pakistan’s pilot-licensing scandal.
Inclusion of the U.S. in the latest EU travel ban may make sense from a public health standpoint, but it’s bad news for airlines taking their first steps to recovery on both sides of the Atlantic.
The FAA, expanding on temporary provisions issued in April, has extended relief for pilots and other certificated industry professionals who have certain qualifications, medical certificates and training due for renewal this summer.
The government ministry responsible for South African Airways (SAA) has withdrawn from talks aimed at fostering employee engagement in developing an operating model for a restructured SAA.
European Union member states have set out a list of countries from which they will gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions on non-essential travel, including Australia, Canada, South Korea and China—as long as it reciprocates—but excluding the U.S.
The UK government appears to be on the point of amending its roundly-criticized requirement that most arriving air travelers must self-quarantine for 14 days.
The slackening of air traffic worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic offers time to take stock of what Collins Aerospace calls the Datalink Dilemma—the increasing volume of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) data sent over VHF frequencies.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a citation and penalty to Textron Aviation as part of its investigation into a December explosion at its Wichita Plant 3 facility that injured 15 employees.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members on June 24 acknowledged a need to reform spectrum decision-making following their controversial action to grant Ligado Networks the use of frequency bands near those used for GPS and satellite communications.
EU member states are finalizing a list of countries from which inbound travel will continue to be banned once the region’s borders reopen July 1, using criteria including the health situations in those countries.
IATA is urging governments to replace travel quarantines with multi-step processes that would mitigate the risk of a COVID-19 infected passenger boarding a flight and reduce the chance of any infected person transmitting the disease.
