EU Seeks Curbs on Airline Subsidies

The European Union is seeking tough limits on public subsidies to airlines and the option of revoking their traffic rights as part of new commercial aviation agreements it wants to negotiate with several countries including Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. A draft “fair competition clause”, which the EU executive wants to include in air […]

Video Shows Airport Workers were Part of Somalia Bombing

Closed circuit TV video released Monday appears to show Mogadishu airport workers handing a laptop computer to the suspected suicide bomber who later tried to bring down a Daallo Airlines flight. The video, released by the Somali government, shows the hand off happening in an area past Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport’s security checkpoint with […]

NAMA Commences 24 Hours Area Radar Control

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that it had begun the provision of 24 hours en-route radar service to airspace users at both the Kano and Lagos Area Control Centres (ACCs). The area radar service which hitherto was only available between Mondays and Fridays from 7am to 7pm has now been extended to […]

ICAO Seeks Agreement Emission Rules

Europe and the United States tried to bridge differences over emissions standards for aircraft as global aviation leaders prepared to adopt new rules that could affect Boeing and Airbus production. Proposals being debated in Montreal by ICAO would force makers of the world’s largest passenger jets to upgrade or stop producing certain models by 2023, […]

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ICAO Seeks Agreement Emission Rules

    Europe and the United States tried to bridge differences over emissions standards for aircraft as global aviation leaders prepared to adopt new rules that could affect Boeing and Airbus production. Proposals being debated in Montreal by ICAO would force makers of the world’s largest passenger jets to upgrade or stop producing certain models […]