Safety, Ops & Regulation

Mozambique has launched a public consultation period into the country’s Civil Aviation Master Plan for the next 20 years.

The Laotian government has agreed to sell a 49% stake in Lao Airlines to China’s Comac.; the state will retain the remaining 51% share of the flag carrier.

Even as parts of government sit idle, the conversations between industry and regulators continue—the quiet work that keeps planes flying and commerce moving.

An American Airlines 737-800 overrun at DFW in February 2024 has been traced back to maintenance errors during a brake system upgrade, an NTSB report reveals.

Garuda Indonesia’s fleet renewal ambitions have encountered a setback after sovereign wealth fund Danatara injected $1.41 billion into the carrier.

The EU’s investment in air traffic management is money well spent, a Sesar executive says.

Converting options and securing leased aircraft will help Thai Airways rebuild its fleet.

Though the U.S. government shutdown appears to be nearing a resolution, the union representing air traffic controllers is wary of residual impacts.

The FAA’s mandating of a MD-11 fleet grounding gives crash investigators time to establish plausible safety issues while eliminating the risk of a similar event

Air traffic controllers make insufficient use of short written messages to communicate with pilots, despite the maturity of the technology, Eurocontrol says.

The money the EU has spent on improving air traffic management via its SESAR project has limited delays and saved CO2 emissions, an exec from the project claims

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has announced the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy that will apply to all departing flights from Singapore.

The FAA is temporarily banning general and business aviation flights at 12 of the nation’s busiest airports.

FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive to inspect MD-11s. The move comes on the heels of a Boeing recommendation to ground the fleet.

U.S. airlines to canceling flights days in advance to implement cuts mandated by the FAA amid the political battle over the U.S government shutdown.

The left engine that came off the UPS MD-11 leading to its fatal crash Nov. 4 had most of its pylon attached when it separated, NTSB investigators determined.

On Nov. 7, temporary flight reductions went into effect at 40 high traffic airports across the U.S.

While European technology is widespread in air traffic management (ATM) worldwide, challengers may leapfrog it, leaders warned at a Eurocontrol conference.

As the U.S. aviation system braces for escalating disruption, data shows tens of thousands of flights will be cut between Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 alone.

Following the tragic MD-11F accident at Louisville, Kentucky, Flight Friday looks at flight cycles of the last tri-jet aircraft built for commercial service.

Investigators probing the fatal Nov. 4 crash of a UPS McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 freighter are analyzing data from both of the aircraft’s onboard recorders.

The FAA and U.S. DOT list of 40 airports to be affected as of Nov. 7 by schedule cuts include essentially all of America's largest and busiest airports.

Air France-KLM reported a dip in net profit for the third quarter, as the airline group was hit by tax increases in France and disruptions in the Netherlands.

Turkish Airlines has finalized an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Air Europa.

The UPS Boeing MD-11 that crashed while taking off from Louisville International Airport Nov. 4 lost its No. 1 engine before the aircraft cleared the airport perimeter, the NTSB said.