Indonesia-based Lion Air Group has signed a contract with technology provider Sabre Corp. to install a comprehensive airline operations and crew management system.
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China’s online travel agency (OTA) Ctrip has invested CNY3 billion ($463 million) in Shanghai-based China Eastern Group, parent of China Eastern Airlines (CEA).
Finland will be the first European Union (EU) country to start using the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) as a tool to complement the safety oversight of Finnish aircraft operators.
Russian’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has issued five “prompt” safety recommendations in its interim report on the crash of Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800 that plunged into the ground after a second missed approach at the Rostov-on-Don airport early on the morning of March 19, killing all 62 aboard.
A lack of relevant data is hindering efforts to determine and address the level of the air traffic management system’s vulnerability to cyberattacks, Eurocontrol DG Frank Brenner said at the IATA Ops Conference in Copenhagen this week.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has appointed CAA International (CAAi), the advisory arm of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), to help strengthen CAAT’s aviation safety oversight in compliance with ICAO.
Pilot leaders at Hawaiian Airlines (HAL) will ask members to give them authority to strike if labor negotiations break down and the federal government authorizes a walkout, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said in a statement released April 19.
The European Cockpit Association (ECA) has criticized the US Department of Transportation (DOT) and European Commission (EC) for the tentative approval of Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) bid to start transatlantic services.
Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), which represents Europe’s major airports, has accused the media of spreading misinformation about the state of security at Brussels Zaventem Airport in the wake of the March 22 terrorist attack.
The difficulty US regional airlines are having hiring new pilots—and the congressionally mandated regulation that they believe is creating the problem—will undoubtedly dominate the 2016 Regional Airline Association (RAA) convention.
Boeing has selected Textron’s TRU Simulation + Training to provide a suite of training devices for the 777X, to be deployed at the aircraft manufacturer’s training centers.
After what Alaska Air Group CEO Brad Tilden described as a “hard fought competition,” his company walked away with the $4 billion prize—a rare opportunity to grow via an acquisition-merger with Virgin America.
Aviation regulation is not keeping up with the fast pace of change in the air transport industry and needs to become more responsive to the changing operational environment, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) executive director Patrick Ky told the IATA Ops Conference in Copenhagen this week.
Istanbul-based regional Borajet Airlines and Helsinki-based Nordic Regional Airlines (Norra) have joined the European Regions Airline Association (ERA).
The commercial aviation industry has become much more adept in a changing operational environment at ensuring public confidence, but faces ongoing communications challenges, IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler told the IATA Ops Conference in Copenhagen.
Calls for action to mitigate the threat to passenger aircraft from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) came from Europe’s main regional airline trade group and others following an April 17 incident at London Heathrow Airport.
