With barely four months to go before the September ICAO assembly deadline for reaching a global agreement on market-based measures to offset aviation emissions, the prospects seem somber....More
US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said Congress has failed to adequately fund FAA, particularly the NextGen air traffic control initiative....More
UK air traffic services provider NATS will provide airspace advice to the Airports Commission set up by the UK government to examine the need for additional airport capacity and recommend to government how this can be met in the short-, medium- and long-term....More
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted an airworthiness certificate for the Boeing 787, clearing the way for China Southern Airlines to take delivery of its first Boeing 787 at the end of May or early June....More
European Commission antitrust regulators have accepted concessions from Air Canada, Lufthansa and United Continental Holdings to ease competition concerns about their A Plus-Plus transatlantic joint venture....More
US transportation secretary-nominee Anthony Foxx told Congress that modernizing and building up the country’s transportation infrastructure, including implementing the NextGen air traffic control system, will be a top priority during his tenure heading the Dept. of Transportation (DOT)....More
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved the launch of Qingdao Airlines as it continues to green light new privately run airlines....More
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved the launch of Kunming-based Ruili Airlines, opening the door to new entrants in China....More
The US should look to what’s happening at airports worldwide and think bigger and more strategically about how its airports can best raise the investments necessary to keep them competitive on a global scale, the head of the Airports Council International said Monday....More
Governments must put more political will into sorting out air traffic management mega-projects and also addressing the political issue of finding a global agreement for emission market-based-measures (MBMs), the head of IATA said Monday....More
Airbus, Air Canada and BioFuelNet Canada have formed a partnership to assess Canadian solutions for the production of sustainable jet fuels with a long-term goal of supplying Air Canada....More
US regional airlines are increasingly concerned about a potential pilot shortage that could curtail their growth or even force carriers to decrease capacity....More
Preliminary results of a pilot fatigue study conducted by Washington State University (WSU) show there is a “small difference” between the fatigue level of pilots conducting multi-segment operations and those flying a longer single segment....More
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