Safety, Ops & Regulation

Frankfurt and Munich airports were most affected Thursday by German public services trade union Verdi strike over wages.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

United Aviation Services (UAS), a provider of international trip support services for flight operators, VIP and government officials, launched a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria today.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
New satellite images from over the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 have identified 122 potential objects of interest in the ocean.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Seven major German airports—including Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart and Hanover—will be affected by German public services trade union Verdi strike over wages on Thursday.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Singapore’s Changi Airport is stepping up passenger security in light of possible lapses revealed in the aftermath of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, flight MH370.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has published its final decision on future economic regulation of Stansted Airport, and confirmed the airport will not require an economic regulation license for any of its passenger and cargo services from April.
Airports & Networks

By Karen Walker
Equipment and technology from all over the world, and on an unprecedented scale, are being brought to bear in the southern Indian Ocean in the effort to locate and retrieve the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200.
Aircraft & Propulsion

FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) mandating the removal of “defective software” on GE Aviation GEnx-powered Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and 747-8 freighter aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
L-3 Link Simulation & Training is expanding its Asian Aviation Training Centre (AATC) in Bangkok with an ATR 72-600 full flight simulator (FFS) and an ATR 72-600 flat panel trainer (FPT).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Debris spotted in the south Indian Ocean appears to be wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. Malaysia’s prime minister and the airline’s Group CEO have both issued statements saying new data and analysis shows the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, went down in a remote area of the ocean west of Perth.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Mobile satellite communications specialist Inmarsat leveraged a “groundbreaking but traditional mathematics-based process” to analyze data from other flights that use its satellite network and establish a pattern that helped investigators nail down Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 final flight path as traveling south over the Indian Ocean, an Inmarsat executive explained.
Aircraft & Propulsion

German public services trade union Verdi has called for a warning strike over wages on Thursday regarding Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport, which could further affect flights through Germany this week.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Debris spotted in the south Indian Ocean appears to be wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. The Boeing 777-200, with 239 people on board, went missing March 8 during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Following reports that new satellite images have identified floating debris that could be remnants of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH370, search efforts have been further ramped up in the south Indian Ocean.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

More than 95% of Lufthansa pilots have voted in favor of going on strike, union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which represents about 5,400 Lufthansa pilots, announced Friday. The union is seeking better pay and working conditions for pilots at Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Australian authorities are intensifying their search efforts in the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth where satellite images showed some unidentified debris that might be connected to the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Thai Airways International has signed up for Airbus’s Smarter Fuel Efficiency (SFE) system.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Mark Nensel
An independent study of the Nov. 1, 2013, fatal shooting incident at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has revealed lapses in communication and coordination among responding public safety organizations, as well as outdated and faulty emergency alert and warning systems within the airport, according to a report issued by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

UK air navigation services provider NATS reports that the environmental and operational efficiency of UK airspace improved during 2013, as measured by its 3Di metric.
Airports & Networks

By Karen Walker
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370 intensified in the southern Indian Ocean Thursday after Australian satellite images showed debris southwest of Perth that may “possibly be related to the search,” Malaysia’s top transportation minister confirmed.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has announced plans to reform the country’s controversially high air passenger duty (APD) in his 2014 Budget.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Airbus has determined that an open-rotor-powered A320-class airliner is technically feasible. The next steps are to prove the concept is economically viable, then to demonstrate the propulsion system in flight, which is planned under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 public-private research program.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

London Gatwick Airport is launching a six-week consultation among local communities, starting April 4, seeking input on its proposals to build a second runway.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
European airlines reacted with a combination of dismay and exasperation Wednesday following a European Parliament committee vote to ditch a compromise on the contentious Emissions Trading System (ETS).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Russia is taking lessons from NASA's aeronautics and Europe's Clean Sky programs in structuring its new civil aviation research effort, to begin in 2016.
Safety, Ops & Regulation