To help airports navigate a new drone-heavy world, Airports Council International (ACI) World released Monday a policy paper filled with information and recommendations on the issue. The organizati...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced Northern Kentucky has been awarded $75 million in infrastructure grants. “This $75 million investment in this key infrastructure i...
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Last year, airline fatalities globally hit a record low, according to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) report. EASA began record keeping in 1970. There were nine fatal accidents in 2017 inv...
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Aviation job salaries in 16 positions have increased between 3 percent and 4 percent from 2017, according to a survey of National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) members. The positions with th...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently launched an effort to address the advanced number of false alerts from 406 MHz emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) used on aircraft last year. T...
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The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) recently amended administrative rules to allow Transportation Network Companies (TNC) to operate at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on...
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The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) is seeking participants for the 2019 Aviation Design Challenge, with the goal of promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) recently published on its website an updated 12-Year Transportation program, which now foresees $63.9 billion will be available over the next 12...
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Acting under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) unmannered aircraft systems (UAS) integration pilot program (IPP) this week, a joint governmental, academic and corporate effort yielded Ka...
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A coalition of 32 aviation industry organizations recently sent a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), urging the legislators to pass ...
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Recently released study findings maintain elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are linked to decreased pilot performance. Findings of the Flight Safety Foundation probe published in the Journal of ...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved drones to be flown 30 miles outside visual range of operators at the Northern Plains unmanned aircraft systems test site for the next two years. ...
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is urging the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) to develop and provide aviation weather forecasters with formal training on forecasting low-level...
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Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) recently advised carriers to decide their own policy regarding whether to require two crewmembers in the cockpit at all times during flights. â€...
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Capacity is now regularly outpacing demand growth among air cargo, according to a report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as freight growth continues to lag. In June 2018, f...
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Global passenger traffic grew by 5.6 percent in May on a year-over-year basis, despite a global climate of increasing geopolitical tension, according to a recent report conducted by the Airports Counc...
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A coalition of eight aviation industry groups recently sent a letter about aviation noise to the chairmen and ranking members of the U.S. House and Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transpor...
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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) recently joined a coalition of aviation groups supporting federal authority over the National Airspace System. Earlier this month, the coalition se...
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While airport privatization is commonly prevalent in Europe and Australia, circumstances unique to the United States limit the usefulness of privatization in solving airport problems, the Eno Center f...
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In a survey conducted by the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) this week, 81 percent of Americans expressed opposition to removing pilots from cockpits on safety grounds. ALPA condu...
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