Airlines Blame GA For Holiday Flight Delays Airlines say GA traffic caused some of the relatively few flight delays travelers experienced over Christmas and wants regulators to “find the appropriate balance between commercial and private aviation traffic” to prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, the National Business Aviation[…] Read this article
A Weirdly Provocative Way To End The Year Sometimes organizations do things that are just plain weird and that’s where I’m filing Airlines for America’s weirdly provocative letter to the FAA and Department of Transportation last week about some relatively minor flight delays during the Christmas break. Now,[…] Read this article
Best Of The Web: Storm Landings In Europe Storm Ciaran hit Europe in November and Cargospotter found good vantage points at a couple of German airports. Read this article
FAA STCs Wearable HUD The Federal Aviation Administration recently granted approval for a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for AerSale’s AerAware headset device known as SkyLens HWD (head-wearable display)—an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) for pilots in low-visibility conditions. AerSale says its EFVS received approval from the FAA[…] Read this article
SpaceX Launches X-37B A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched a classified military space plane from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday night. The Dec. 28 launch marked the seventh mission for Space Forces’ X-37B space plane and the first time[…] Read this article
Loose Bolt Prompts MAX Inspections Boeing is urging airlines to inspect 737 MAX jets for a possible loose bolt in the rudder control system, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. In coordination with the agency, Boeing issued a Muti-Operator Message (MOM), targeted to operators of[…] Read this article
Delta Cuts Training Goals In Half Delta Air Lines intends to scale back pilot hiring next year to half the number the carrier hired 2023— an indication that the post-pandemic hiring spree is slowing down. Aero Crew News first broke the story after obtaining an “Flight Ops[…] Read this article
Last Week's Poll Results: Stable FAA Funding To no one’s surprise, the majority of our poll respondents want a new funding method for the FAA that might take some of the politics out of its budget allotments. Read this article
Poll: Should scheduled airline flights get first priority for airspace? Read this article
