FAA WORRIES ABOUT AIRCRAFT AGE RANGES
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told Congress this week that the agency is reviewing regulations for inspecting aging aircraft following the midair fuselage skin rupture on a Southwest Airlines 737-30...
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told Congress this week that the agency is reviewing regulations for inspecting aging aircraft following the midair fuselage skin rupture on a Southwest Airlines 737-30...
According to the pilots union, BALPA, there is a growing problem of fatigue among flight crew. It has have voiced concern that this will worsen under EU proposals to increase flying hours from 900 hou...
Virgin Blue has settled out of court with Navitaire, the IT company deemed responsible for a failure in the airline’s system last year. The airline said it had reached a “mutually exclusive” agreement...
Lufthansa’s offices were raided yesterday by German investigators in connection with an alleged fraud. Police allege at least €20 million worth of scrapped coins were sent to forgers in China where th...
The UK Competition Commission has upheld its 2009 decision to force airport operator BAA, owned by Spanish company Ferrovial, to be broken up. BAA must sell Gatwick and Stansted and either Glasgow or ...
Delhi Police have issued a lookout notice against three pilots and a flying instructor for allegedly forging marksheets to procure pilot licences. The pilots Swaran Singh Talwar of MDLR, and Syed Habi...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has identified two more pilots who had submitted forged marksheets to obtain the Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL). After obtaining an ATPL, a Fir...
The FAA yesterday suspended a controller who apparently fell asleep on the job at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Two aircraft, including a United Airlines flight from Chicago, were forced ...
British airlines have accused the government of concealing an increase in flight taxes despite claims that the air passenger duty (APD) levy will be frozen for a year. The British Air Transport Associ...
At an inquest into the crash of a Thai airline MD-82 aircraft at Phuket airport that killed 90 people in September 2007, is expected to hear that the airline concerned, One-Two-Go covered up failings ...
US ANTITERRORIST RULES The EU has side stepped away from mandating that aircraft carriers disable or remove oxygen generators in plane bathrooms, saying they lack legal authority to call for the chang...
Ryanair has continued to defend its right to hold a minority stake in Aer Lingus by legally challenging a UK Office of Fair Trading investigation. Ryanair claims the regulator has waited too long to i...
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