Three aviation training veterans have launched a new pilot training academy in the UK to help meet the demand for thousands of new commercial airline pilots over the next 20 years.
An Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 crashed into a lagoon on Sept. 28 when attempting to land at Chuuk Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, with all passengers and crew evacuated safely.
Qantas has revealed the first location for its proposed pilot training academy and has selected L3 Commercial Aviation as the site’s training provider.
UK carrier British Airways (BA) has invited two unnamed companies to do biometric self-boarding gate trials at New York JFK, building on existing pilot projects at Los Angeles LAX and Orlando.
Irish LCC Ryanair will cancel 150 flights Sept. 28 as German pilots, represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union, called for a 24-hour strike—the same day that cabin crew strikes are also scheduled to take place in Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.
A Boeing 737-800 of Bangladeshi carrier US-Bangla Airlines carried out a forced landing after its nose undercarriage failed to extend as it approached the small regional city of Cox’s Bazar on a flight from the country’s capital, Dhaka, Sept. 26.
The global airline industry has come out in strong support for the US Congress’s recently announced compromise bill to reauthorize the FAA through 2023. But a provision tucked in the bill that would clear the way for the FAA to regulate minimum seat sizes has some industry-watchers concerned Congress may be overstepping its bounds.
FAA plans to roll out enhancements to airport surface detection systems that will alert air traffic controllers when aircraft are about to land on taxiways, addressing an issue that the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) identified as key during its probe into a 2017 taxiway near-miss incident at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
FAA reauthorization legislation agreed by US House and Senate committee leaders on noise standards for civil supersonic aircraft has been lauded by a Colorado startup that is developing a 55-seat, Mach 2.2 airliner.
Delta Air Lines said Wednesday it was investigating the root cause of the technology issue that affected the carrier the previous evening, prompting an hour-long ground stop across its US operations.
UK pilots and European airports have welcomed the publication of UK government guidance on what will happen if the country leaves the European Union (EU) in March 2019 without an agreed-upon Brexit deal.
Russia’s State Transport Leasing Co. (STLC) plans to introduce an IT system developed by Connected Aircraft Enterprise (CAE) that will allow the lessor to monitor its fleet online.
A nationwide strike action will shut down much of Argentina’s air travel capabilities Sept. 25, as aviation-sector employees are expected to join the country’s public transportation and port workers in a full-day protest called by Argentina’s major labor unions.
UK pilot training school Skyborne Airline Academy has opened for business and taken delivery of a Boeing 737 MAX fixed-base simulator from Dutch company Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS).
Ryanair said it would cooperate with Italy’s competition authority, which is investigating the Irish LCC’s new hand baggage policy on the grounds that, as hand-baggage is usually considered an essential part of travel, it could make it harder for consumers to transparently compare prices.
US House and Senate Committee leaders have reached a final agreement on multi-year legislation to reauthorize the FAA, capping a three-year battle between Republicans and Democrats that many industry observers expected would culminate in another short-term extension for the agency.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines plans to offer a full biometric airport throughput to travelers on direct international flights from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s (ATL) Terminal F, beginning late 2018.
A compromise bill to reauthorize the FAA could be taken up by the US House as early as next week, according to a staffer on the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, who added that negotiations are on track and members remain optimistic about the prospects of passing the legislation before the fast-approaching Sept. 30 deadline.
Central American commercial aviation leaders pledged renewed cooperation to resolve myriad issues of government regulation, excessive airport and passenger fees and infrastructure inadequacies at the Aviation Day Central America conference in San Jose, Costa Rica Sept. 19.
