Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Relief for European Air Traffic?

Looks like Europe will be back on track - aviation-wise - sometime this week. Several European airlines, among them Lufthansa and Air Berlin, consider suing authorities for unnecessary closures of parts of the European airspace. Isn't it insane that a little volcano in Iceland which nobody ever heard of before can cause so much trouble?

To read the CNN story, please click here.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

WSJ - EU Makes Push for Real-Time Flight Data

In the wake of the AF 447 crash last June more and more pilots, aviation experts and policy makers support the introduction of real-time flight data streaming. The International Civil Aviation Organization's global aviation summit will start tomorrow in Montreal, Canada, and the EU's transport commissioner, Siim Kallaswill, will officially endorse such a program. This will mark the first official government endorsement of such data streaming.

To read the Wall Street Journal Article, please click here.