How the Boeing 737 MAX was quietly ungrounded in China
On March 10, 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, registered as ET-AVJ, plunged to the ground shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia, marking…
French civil aviation authority warns of widespread disruption on March 15 due to strikes
France’s DGAC civil aviation authority warned on Monday of widespread disruption at the country’s airports on March 15 due to a planned nationwide strike to be held in protest against…
Oman opens airspace, joining Saudi in Israeli airline corridor
Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Thursday said the Gulf Arab state’s airspace will be open for all civilian carriers, a move that would enable Israeli airlines to utilize a…
Japan Airlines Airbus A350 diverts twice due to missed airport curfew
A Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND) to Fukuoka Airport (FUK) had to divert twice when the flight missed Fukuoka’s airport curfew by minutes. Flight JL331 was scheduled…
U.S. jet fuel shortage drives airline costs higher: Kemp
Resurgent passenger aviation following the coronavirus pandemic has created shortages of jet fuel, pushing up airlines’ operating costs and fares. U.S. jet fuel inventories stood at just 36.5 million barrels…
Vietnamese aviation to fully recover by year-end
The Vietnamese aviation sector is expected to fully recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of 2023, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of VietNam (CAAV).…
Passenger demand recovery 68.5% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022: IATA
The latest industry update published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has indicated that traffic in 2022 was 68.5% of pre-pandemic levels. Total traffic in 2022, measured in Revenue…
DOT Secretary Buttigieg wants more resources for FAA computer systems
After the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) computer systems experienced an outage, causing a system-wide stoppage in the United States (US), lawmakers are looking to gain…
U.S. Congress to investigate FAA computer outage that snarled flights
U.S. lawmakers will review the cause of a Federal Aviation Administration computer system outage overnight on Tuesday that sparked a nationwide ground stop and delayed or canceled more than 10,000…
Cocaine Cargo: Pivot Airlines Drug Bust Investigation
Earlier this year, this year a Canadian airline crew was detained in the Dominican Republic, after they reported $25 million in cocaine hidden in the maintenance bay of their aircraft.…