ACI World calls for common-sense landside security at airports
As the bombings which killed 35 people (three of them suicide bombers) on 22 March in Brussels Airport’s main terminal building show, airpor... Continue Reading
Safety
Will safety service ever transmit over cabin connectivity pipes?
Inmarsat and Panasonic Avionics, longtime rivals in the inflight connectivity space with traditionally different approaches to the market, d... Continue Reading
Asiana A380 smoke-alert incident begs questions
Aviation-industry insiders, including commercial pilots and aviation safety experts, are puzzled why the pilots of an Asiana Airlines Airbus... Continue Reading
With PED fire events on the rise, will containment kits take off?
In the wake of the recent Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fire on board a Southwest Airlines flight (the device has since been banned by the DOT), and... Continue Reading
Landmark ICAO aviation emissions deal provokes mixed emotions
Today’s agreement to adopt the world’s first market-based measure (MBM) to control emissions from international aviation is a key milestone,... Continue Reading
ORBIS launches social media campaign for World Sight Day
Last month ORBIS International’s third generation Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) touched down in Shenyang, China for their first official t... Continue Reading
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
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
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