Posts tagged "pilot-safety"
NOTAM A476/26 keeps Pakistani airspace shut to Indian-registered aircraft until 24 September, the sixteenth rollover since April 2025. The detours are now a structural cost line for Indian carriers, and they are showing up in network decisions.
Avinor closed Oslo Gardermoen to scheduled traffic between 06:30 and 11:30 on Sunday as a walkout by 12 Norwegian air traffic controllers wiped out most of the morning departure bank. A second strike phase is set for 25 August.
Between 15 and 21 August 2026, Germany's BFU opened inquiries into two separate widebody events on the same Munich runway within 48 hours, while two long-haul jets declared emergencies for hydraulic problems and a fatal midair collision at an uncontrolled Pennsylvania airfield drew NTSB investigators.
India's regulator is preparing to lift mandatory random psychoactive-substance screening of airline crew from 10 per cent to more than 25 per cent a year, weeks after an Air India captain returned a positive confirmatory test. Pilots want saliva testing and procedural safeguards added at the same time.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated the Transportation Department's order stripping Delta and Aeroméxico of antitrust immunity, calling the agency's reasoning arbitrary and capricious. The joint venture and its immunity stay in place.
The US Department of Transportation has again postponed enforcement of the core provisions of its 2024 wheelchair rule, this time to April 30, 2027. Two years after it was written, the most consequential passenger-experience regulation of the decade still has no teeth.
The 2026-2028 Global Aviation Safety Plan lists turbulence encounters among its global risk categories for the first time. US accident data shows who actually gets hurt: flight attendants, four times more often than passengers.
A Dutch court annulled the 478,000-movement ceiling at Europe's third-busiest hub in March. Five months later, the airport's own evaluation shows noise exposure falling faster than the government forecast — because of pricing, not quotas.
A modified Airbus A350 has already flown Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes. Now Qantas has to prove that a 238-seat aeroplane can pay for itself on the route no one else wants to fly.
A US$34.5 billion backlog, an E2 programme past 500 firm orders and a defence book growing 42 per cent. Embraer's problem is no longer demand — it is building fast enough to matter.
Mishandled-bag rates fell 23% in 2025 and dropped below pre-pandemic levels for the first time, helped by an unlikely partner — the tracker travellers bought themselves. But a $6.3 billion problem still sits in the transfer hall.
EASA's fourth revision of its GNSS interference bulletin, published in July 2026, quietly reclassifies satellite navigation jamming from a rare anomaly to a standing operational risk. The change reaches into phraseology, training and ATC capacity.