Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) estimates that a five-day walkout over plans to transfer regional jet cabin crew to newly acquired Cimber will set it back SEK50 million ($5.8 million).
The pilots of the Delta Air Lines MD-88 that skidded off the runway at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 5 “did not sense any wheel brake deceleration” upon landing and were “unable to prevent the airplane from drifting left,” according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
A report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has revealed the locator-beacon battery in the flight data recorder (FDR) had passed its expiration date, an oversight that later triggered a fleet-wide check by the airline.
Emirates Airline, the world’s largest Boeing 777 operator, has been waiting with the rest of the world for an explanation about what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared March 8 last year while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
African air navigation organisation ASECNA is to co-operate with traffic management venture Aireon to explore space-based surveillance for remote regions, reports Flightglobal.
FlightSafety International has become the first FAR Part 142 training provider to be recognized by FAA for meeting its Safety Management System (SMS) requirements.
Global air passenger traffic increased 4.6% year-over-year (YOY) in January, slowing from December’s 6.1% YOY growth, according to IATA’s January Air Passenger Market Analysis report.
[UPDATED] A Delta Air Lines MD-88 went off the runway after landing at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) shortly after 11 a.m. local time Thursday and crashed into a fence before stopping.
Civil aviation authorities in the Middle East are increasingly turning to cutting-edge technologies to grapple with the unprecedented air traffic growth that is threatening the pace of aircraft movements in the skies and fleet expansion on the grounds.
The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) conducted an inaugural Workshop supporting the implementation of the new regulations requiring all heliport operators to hold either a GCAA Heliport Certificate or Landing Area Acceptance.
The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has increased its inspection on airplanes and aviation operators from Thailand following the announcement of safety gaps in the Thai civil aviation system.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian Air Shuttle estimated that some 35,000 passengers were affected by a strike among pilots that shut down routes across Scandinavia Wednesday.
The Indonesia Navy has called off the retrieval mission of the wreckage of AirAsia QZ8501 after divers declared there were no more bodies inside the main fuselage, which has not been able to be lifted from the seabed of the Java Sea off Pangkalan Bun in south Borneo.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta told Congress “a lot is at stake” in crafting FAA reauthorization legislation, particularly regarding the implementation of the NextGen air traffic control (ATC) system.
JetBlue Airways pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, (ALPA), have sent official notice to company management requesting to open contract negotiations under the federal Railway Labor Act.
The ability to work anywhere on any device has huge implications for the airline industry, from launching new routes to making the best use of a crew’s time to reacting to a disaster.
The inaugural business aviation regulation working group took place on the 25th of January 2015 at the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) headquarters in Dubai, less than two months after the initiative was announced.
