Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
The German coalition government has decided on several measures aimed at reducing financial pressure on the air transport industry.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
Citing a “rapid decline in controller callouts,” U.S. transportation officials are freezing the level of flight reductions currently imposed on domestic airlines at 6%.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
The FAA is freezing an order to reduce airline and scheduled charter service traffic by 6% at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Joshua Crumbaugh
Criminals can lock up your systems and threaten to leak your data. This stops reservations, dispatch, crew scheduling—everything. Here is plan to help.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
FAA and EASA issued emergency airworthiness directives requiring operators to replace the center shaft assembly of Airbus Helicopters EC130 light helicopters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
Though the U.S. government shutdown appears to be nearing a resolution, the union representing air traffic controllers is wary of residual impacts.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Air traffic controllers make insufficient use of short written messages to communicate with pilots, despite the maturity of the technology, Eurocontrol says.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
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
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has announced the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy that will apply to all departing flights from Singapore.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
The FAA is temporarily banning general and business aviation flights at 12 of the nation’s busiest airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Charter brokers must either self-regulate or the FAA play a stronger role in preventing illegal charter flights, industry professionals said at a conference.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
While European technology is widespread in air traffic management (ATM) worldwide, challengers may leapfrog it, leaders warned at a Eurocontrol conference.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
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.
Airports & Networks

By Jeremy Kariuki
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is anticipating the impact of the FAA’s flight activity reductions across 40 major U.S. airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
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.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lee Ann Shay
Fetch Air, a new charter company based in Southern California, is on track to fly its first flight on Dec. 1.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Wheels Up is streamlining sales and operations and achieving initial efficiencies from fleet simplification and better aligning its overhead cost structure.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Steve Bruneau
AI’s role isn’t to replace pilots or managers—it’s to help aviation professionals make smarter, safer, faster decisions in our service-based industry.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton, Sean Broderick
Closures of U.S. airspace could be ahead as the U.S. government shutdown drags on, warns U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
A better picture of how Western aerospace and defense manufacturers are adapting to the accelerating retrenchment in globalization is emerging.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation organizations are assessing the needs of the island and sending supplies after Hurricane Melissa smacked Jamaica with a Category 5 storm.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The NTSB issued an urgent safety recommendation Oct. 29.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
EASA flight standards director Jesper Rasmussen has outlined a “radical change” to the certification of new general and regional aviation aircraft technologies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Scott Donnelly, who has long held the role of president and CEO of Textron, plans to retire effective Jan. 4, 2026.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
If the U.S. air transport system is reduced to chaos by the shutdown, the public—and the businesses that depend on air transport of people and cargo—will be angry.
Safety, Ops & Regulation