(BRUSSELS) — EU lawmakers approved Wednesday new rules requiring airlines to use more sustainable fuels across the bloc in a bid to help decarbonize the sector. Under the new standards adopted during a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, France, 2% of jet fuel must...

US supports Vietnam in air traffic management An aircraft takes off at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi on July 18, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy The Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) and the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed a funding...

Not long before the pandemic, if you can remember such a time, I attended a Eurocontrol artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Brussels, at which people from across the industry gathered to attempt to cut through the hype and look at real, practical ways in which this disruptive...

Blockchain and drones: How will we control the new highways of the skies above us as small aircraft fill the the space above our cities? Blockchain is a new industry. And yet, there are systems being conceived around it that are even newer. And this concept is one of them. For those of...

Portugal’s air traffic control company NAV wants to extend the schedule of nighttime flights in Lisbon due to the implementation of the new Top Sky control system, a company source told Lusa. Notice for the consultation of interested parties was published on Wednesday to start the...

Representatives of Shell International Petroleum and Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Lufthansa Group) have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for exploring the supply of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) by Shell to the Lufthansa Group for seven years at airports across the...

Europe has approximately 40 air navigation service providers employing over 50,000 staff and coordinating up to 30,000 flights a day. Two mid-air collisions, Milan Linate in 2001 and Überlingen in 2002, revealed serious problems in the safety culture of these service providers. Tom...