After a tumultuous year for the airline sector in 2008, as spirallintg fuel prices and then weakening demand prompted a string of airline collapses and retrenching by others, Airline Business takes a look at some of the key issues facing the airline industry in 2009 and beyond.
See the Airline Business blog for a look back at some of the big stories in 2008
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Although support for personnel dealing with mental health difficulties has increased in the aviation industry, there is an urgent need to draw attention to the issue of prevention, according to a human factors working group at the Royal Aeronautical Society. Mental health among pilots became a high-profile matter after the ...
Chilean investigators have determined that an involuntary forward shift of the captain’s seat preceded the in-flight upset involving a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 last month. The aircraft had been cruising at 41,000ft en route to Auckland from Sydney on 11 March. It experienced a “sudden unintentional” loss of altitude, says ...
Fraport, the operator of Frankfurt airport, one of continental Europe’s busiest, says that air traffic had to be completely halted on two days in 2023 due to drone incursions around the airfield.
