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News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

The union representing air traffic controllers rejected the FAA’s call last month for federal mediation to help the agency reach a new labor agreement with

Union rejects FAA call for federal mediation

The FAA’s air traffic controller contract proposal maintains the average base pay of current controllers ($166,000), which the agency said is a 74-percent 

FAA & union still differ on pay, workday

Didier Daoust

“Despite several crises, air traffic growth continues inexorably in Europe but with delays reaching an all-time low, the average delay per flight now stand

Eurocontrol undertakes study of bizav traffic

John Sheridan

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

Once the exclusive domain of the military and, with few exceptions, flying outside controlled airspace, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now slowly nudg

UAVs make progress toward full civil airspace operations

Charles Alcock

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil, non-segregated airspace took another step forward early last month at the unmanned systems trade show 

Large UAV Flies in Civil Airspace

Stephen Pope

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

Raytheon Systems of the UK has received a contract from Eurocontrol to install four ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) ground systems to su

Raytheon To Conduct ADS-B Trials for Eurocontrol

Airservices Australia has issued a request for proposal (RFP) to avionics makers for as many as 1,500 ADS-B airborne systems for installation in the countr

Australia Moves Ahead with Plan To Provide Free ADS-B Avionics to GA

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

People tend to think of NASA’s Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) project as a far-fetched plan to put an airplane in every garage and turn the sk

NASA’s SATS Initiative Could Pay Dividends for Business Aviation

The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) will help manage the two-year definition phase of the Sesame Single European Sky implementation program as p

ERA Takes Direct Role in Sesame Project

Roger A. Mola

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

The airspace shutdown on 9/11 was done methodically but quickly, with many calling it "organized mayhem."

Shutdown of National Airspace System Was ‘Organized Mayhem’

Bill Carey

Aireon Enlists New ANSPs for Space-Based Surveillance System

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