From IoT of freighters to IFE, Kontron on its irons in the fire
During the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in April, German multinational company Kontron indicated a strong interest in playing an important ... Continue Reading
Safety
IATA seeks international cooperation to combat unruly passengers
By asking all countries represented at the 39th ICAO Assembly now underway to ratify the Montreal Protocol 2014 on unruly passengers, IATA i... Continue Reading
Inmarsat eyes SwiftBroadband Safety milestone in 2Q 2017
Inmarsat is confident that the FAA’s Performance-based Operations Aviation Rulemaking Committee (PARC) will recommend its next generation Sw... Continue Reading
Can ICAO convince the world to regulate aviation emissions?
As the adage goes: “You can’t please all of the people all of the time”. This aptly sums up the position ICAO will find itself in over the n... Continue Reading
Partial GlobalBeacon tracking available to Qatar immediately
Even though the GlobalBeacon flight-tracking service announced by an Aireon-FlightAware partnership last week won’t be fully operational unt... Continue Reading
Aireon still targets early 2018 operations despite SpaceX delay
Aireon still expects to begin offering space-based ADS-B air traffic management surveillance data feeds to all its air navigation service pr... Continue Reading
Comparable Europe, US on-time performances hide ATM differences
Although Europe and the continental US achieved almost-identical levels of punctuality in commercial flight departures and arrivals in 2015,... Continue Reading
Flightradar24 gears up for a new wave of flight tracking
FlightRadar24, the live flight tracker service that myriad news outlets rely upon when an aircraft goes off radar, has begun experimenting w... Continue Reading
GEE focuses on marrying ops analytics with real-time aircraft data
Just over a year ago, Global Eagle Entertainment made an aircraft operations big data play with the acquisition of ops data powerhouse masFl... Continue Reading
SITAONAIR FlightTracker to introduce weather-based alerting
The FlightTracker service SITAONAIR has offered for about 18 months as part of its AIRCOM Server aeronautical telecommunications product lin... Continue Reading
#PaxEx TV: Flying the Cuban skies and unorthodox airline marketing
In this episode of #PaxEx TV, RGN correspondent Seth Miller shares the thrill of being on the first scheduled flight between the US and Cuba... Continue Reading
Various factors encourage frequent French ATC strikes
The fact France has three different air traffic controllers’ unions and they don’t always take coordinated industrial action is a key reason... Continue Reading
Zodiac sees improvement in Texas operation; teases big seat order
Zodiac released its quarterly numbers after the market closed in Paris this afternoon with results largely in line with expectations. The co... Continue Reading
Members of Air Charter Association see spike in cybercrime
BACA, the world’s largest Air Charter Association representing charter brokers and others in aviation, has issued a stark warning abou... Continue Reading
Seniors, not disabled people, drive airline assistance provisions
A commonly quoted industry statistic is that one in every 100 air travel passengers requires assistance either at the airport or on the airc... Continue Reading
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