Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
The CEO of US independent carrier JetBlue Airways has called for greater scrutinization of large airline joint ventures (JVs), warning they can harm competition and innovation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
IATA hopes to simplify the relationship between airlines and technology providers with a platform similar to Apple’s App Store called Travel Grid.

By Bill Carey
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has called on the FAA and US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) to assist in providing information on an automated pitch-control system suspected of possibly contributing to the October fatal crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Transport Canada’s (TC’s) unwillingness to make rules without industry buy-in is keeping some of the country’s key safety issues from being addressed, the country’s top safety investigation official said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
A US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) investigative hearing into the April inflight engine failure of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 on Nov. 14 honed in on the design and testing of the CFM56-7B engine fan blades and the containment capability of the engine inlet and fan cowl.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
FAA has installed taxiway-landing alert systems at four US airports and has 31 more lined up to get the safety enhancement within the next two years, the agency’s top runway safety official said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
ATW speaks with IATA head of innovation Juan Iván Martín about the Travel Grid project, which aims to use Blockchain technology to address industry fragmentation and create an 'App Store'-like platform, giving easier access to innovative technology suppliers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Honeywell has completed initial testing of a software-based runway collision avoidance system that uses automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) position reports to alert pilots to potential conflicts on the airport surface.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jack Wittman
With a rise in global airline passenger traffic fueling a demand for new pilots, flight-simulator and training supplier CAE expects continued market growth, the company said as it released its second quarter earnings results.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Chukwu Emeke looks at a new open investment plan in Nigeria.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said European aviation is “beset with burdensome regulations,” and argued that a “spirit of change” is needed to improve the competitiveness of European airlines.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
European and international partners are moving toward the launch of an experimental hypersonic glider in 2020 as part of a long-term research program aimed at enabling development of a high-speed civil transport able to fly from Europe to Asia and Australia in under three hours.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
Qatar Airways “has the potential to form our own alliance” should the airline decide to withdraw from the oneworld alliance, CEO Akbar Al Baker said Nov. 13.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick, Bill Carey, Guy Norris
In a move likely linked to the on-going investigation into the fatal crash in October of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8, the aircraft manufacturer has issued a bulletin to operators explaining a system unique to the MAX that automatically pushes the nose down to help prevent stalls in certain flight profiles.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Frontier Airlines and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), reached an agreement in principle on a new contract after more than two and a half years of negotiations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

A pair of military jets escorted an Air Astana Embraer 190 as it experienced severe technical difficulties over Portugal and the pilots considered ditching at sea.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has called on FAA to take action to set minimum dimensions for US airlines, saying the agency is moving too slowly and “not implementing the law.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
International Airlines Group (IAG) expressed confidence an agreement on air transport with the European Union (EU) would be reached after a Spanish media outlet reported the group was in talks with Spain to protect IAG’s EU ownership rights in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Some passengers were injured after a Fly Jamaica Airways Boeing 757 crash-landed at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, in Timehri, Guyana.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The US FBI investigation of the Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 crash Aug. 10 has concluded the airline employee who stole the aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport deliberately crashed it into the ground.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) inspector general (IG) has initiated an audit of the FAA and industry program to provide timely, automated authorization of drone flights near airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas and aviation IT provider SITA are trialing a new biometric identification system at Brisbane Airport that will allow passengers to store their passport details on smartphones.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Panelists at the Aviation Carbon conference voiced confidence that airlines are ready to start monitoring and reporting their international flight emissions from Jan. 1, when the first stage of the ICAO Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) comes into force.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France’s civil aviation authority the DGAC has seized a Ryanair aircraft at Bordeaux-Merignac airport in a bid to force the LCC to pay back public funds that were judged illegal by the European Commission (EC) in 2014.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Ireland-based LCC Ryanair has taken two further steps to sew together a new patchwork of agreements with staff across Europe.
Safety, Ops & Regulation