The first draft of a performance-based packaging standard for lithium-ion batteries will not be ready by November and will likely slip into early 2017, an Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) committee member said Aug. 24.
FAA is stuck in “a vicious cycle” of deploying new air traffic control (ATC) technology so slowly that it becomes outdated by the time the technology is actually in use, NATCA president Paul Rinaldi said Aug. 24.
Hawaiian Airlines pilots’ labor representatives said they will open a strike-operations center in September in Honolulu―the latest escalation of the pilots’ rhetoric in their stalled contract negotiations.
An environmental group is warning that the international aviation community’s draft plan to meet its goal of carbon-neutral growth might not slow emissions as much as expected.
The European Commission (EC) has completed its investigation into Etihad Airways’ equity stake in Air Serbia, concluding it complies with EU regulations, ATW has learned.
All 300 people onboard the Emirates Boeing 777 escaped with their lives when the aircraft crash-landed at Dubai Airport and burst into flames. Sadly a firefighter was killed tackling the blaze, but the scale of the tragedy could have been so much larger.
Inadequate local Kyrgyz regulations and pilot error are named as the main causes for the Avia Traffic Co. Boeing 737 accident Nov. 22, 2015, at Osh International Airport in Kyrgyzstan.
British Airways’ (BA) cabin crew, represented by the Unite union, has voted 91% in favor of industrial action in protest against a new performance system.
Qatar Airways has confirmed that a bird strike was cause of an Airbus A330-300 engine fire that forced the aircraft to return to Istanbul Atatürk Airport shortly after takeoff Aug. 18.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will limit operations of North Korea’s state-owned flag carrier Air Koryo in China after its Russian-built Tu-204 aircraft made an emergency landing in Shenyang because of smoke in the cabin last month.
FAA has chosen the University of Oklahoma and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to lead its new Transportation Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Performance.
Russian airlines taking part in the government’s commuter subsidy program have carried more than 281,000 passengers from Jan.1 through Aug.1, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is expected to raise the bar on approving new entrants in the domestic airline industry in light of market saturation and possible excessive competition.
Japan has approved Spain’s flag carrier Iberia to be included in a Europe-Japan revenue-sharing partnership, which includes oneworld carriers British Airways (BA), Finnair and Japan Airlines (JAL).
Regulations surrounding the carriage of lithium batteries—which have been implicated in several fires on board airliners—must be more strictly enforced, IATA and battery manufacturers said Aug. 15.
United Airlines’ technicians, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, reached an agreement in principle for a joint contract covering the company’s 9,000 technicians and related employees.
United Airlines’ flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), have ratified a new five-year labor contract. (AFA-CWA) represents 25,000 United flight attendants.
A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 diverted to a South Dakota airport on Aug. 11 after experiencing serious turbulence, and 24 passengers and crew were taken to a local hospital.
A KrasAvia Yakovlev Yak-42 overran a runway at Ufa International Airport in Bashkortostan, Russia, by 1,312 ft. (400 meters) Aug. 12, at 4:30 a.m. local time.
UK police have launched an investigation following an incident Aug. 9 in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was seen several hundred yards away from an ATR 72, operating on behalf of UK regional carrier Flybe, while on approach to Newquay Airport in South West England.
