WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a warning today that holiday laser-light displays can be dangerous for flights when aimed into the sky. The agency receives reports from pilots who are distracted or temporarily blinded by residential laser-light displays....
The US Air Force for the first time used an artificially intelligent algorithm program, called ARTUµ, to control the radar on a Lockheed Martin U-2 spy plane. The US Air Force (USAF) for the first time used an artificially intelligent...
Airlines will only need to use 40% of their airport slots over the summer season in order to retain them, under temporarily relaxed rules proposed today by the European Commission. Airlines will only need to use 40% of their airport...
British Airways will permanently axe 13 long-haul destinations from its network next summer, and will suspend flights to Sydney, Bangkok and San Jose until October. From the start of the summer season in late March, the UK carrier will no longer...
UK competition regulators are to probe whether airlines have breached consumers’ legal rights by failing to offer cash refunds for flights they have not been able to take due to lockdown restrictions during the pandemic. The Competition and Markets Authority...
UK Supreme Court judges have ruled in favour of a government plan to build a third runway at London Heathrow, overturning an appeal court ruling against the scheme brought about by Friends of the Friends of the Earth and Plan B...
Airbus has delivered its first aircraft, an A321LR to Titan Airways, fitted with a line-fit in-flight entertainment system based on wireless communications architecture. The system features embedded servers and routers, wi-fi access points, and a software platform. Airbus says the...
Rolls-Royce is receiving cash from a majority of customers for its hour-based service agreements, but has, in the words of chief executive Warren East, “tried to be reasonable… in terms of rescheduling payments”. Rolls-Royce is receiving cash from a majority...
United Aircraft’s modernised Ilyushin Il-114-300 has carried out its maiden flight, a day after the first flight of the Russian-powered version of the Irkut MC-21. The twin-engined Il-114-300 lifted off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airfield on 16 December, says state technology...
US airlines are rethinking their network strategies to get the most out of the coronavirus-driven industry shifts. United Airlines turned heads in the late summer when it began planning numerous direct routes between northern US cities and sun destinations in...