The US Federal Aviation Administration announced on Wednesday that its top safety official, Ali Bahrami, will retire from his post at the end of this month, after the family members of 737 MAX victims called for him to be removed. He spent four years in the top role at the agency. During his tenure at
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has said the pilot of the Ryanair flight that was forced to land in Minsk last week made a “fundamental error” in choosing to re-route the flight to Belarus, rather than continue on to the destination in Lithuania. Last week, it was reported that Belarusian authorities flagged a
Norse Atlantic Airways, Norway’s newest trans-Atlantic low-cost airline, has come to an agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) to hire over 700 flight attendants in the US, ahead of its launch later this year. The announcement comes after Norse Atlantic faced backlash in the US House of Representatives and from the Air Line
Belavia condemns sanctions as Russia allows airlines to reroute through its airspace
The director of Belarus’ national carrier, Belavia, has condemned European leaders over their decision to impose airspace sanctions on the carrier, following last week’s ‘hijacking’ of a Ryanair flight by Belarusian authorities. The European Union, along with the UK, have closed their airspaces to Belarusian carriers, most heavily impacting the country’s state-owned international commercial carrier,
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, UK-based law professors Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and Arman Sarvarian discuss the international legal ramifications of Belarus forcefully landing a Ryanair flight bound for Lithuania in Minsk in order to detain a wanted political journalist. Here’s what we know: the Ryanair aircraft carrying dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich was scheduled to
Boeing has been ordered to pay $17 million in penalties in a settlement made with the US Federal Aviation Administration over equipment it installed in nearly 800 737 MAX and NG aircraft that were not certified and approved by the regulator. The penalties are likely to place any plans Boeing had to increase its production
