Over 20 associations collectively representing the entire European aviation ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to work with policy makers to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, part of a comprehensive collaborative analysis released today detailing ways aviation can recover

After a long process, a winding road to success, provisions for Space Weather Advisories were introduced, effective from November 2018. One year later, in November 2019, three Global Space Weather Centers have become operational and provide Space Weather (SWx) Advisories. On the 28th of

Wizz Air expands. Aggressively. While its competitors are reducing capacity due to the COVID crisis, the airline is expanding and, since March, is taking on Western Europe with new bases and routes. But the airline’s overly optimistic outlook seems now to gradually subside to the reality

A new draft Standard on Aircraft Cabin Air Quality is currently approaching its final stages of development in the European Committee for Standardisation CEN. The draft prEN17436 “Cabin Air Quality on Civil Aircraft – Chemical Compounds” provides a world-beating reference on how to manage

Six months into the COVID pandemic, the people who have dedicated their careers to aviation – pilots, cabin crew, engineers, controllers, ATM and AIS personnel – have an important message for European Transport Ministers, who meet on 28 Sept: Aviation and its strategic infrastructure,

The COVID crisis unleashed a new wave of anti-worker practices in European airlines. From new schemes of atypical employment – to outright dismissal without consultation, here we will collect airlines’ attacks on pilot jobs, terms and conditions. 

The European Cockpit Association, representing over 40.000 pilots in Europe extends its support to the 69 pilots of Air Malta, who were dismissed by the company in June 2020, and warns against the Government of Malta promoting precarious atypical aircrew employment.

Without doubt, aviation’s warming impact contributes to the climate emergency we all face. While current estimates suggest around 2% of global CO2 emissions come from the aviation sector, the non-CO2 warming effects are reckoned to bring its total percentage of all warming effects to

Joint statement by leading European aviation organisations on mental well-being, impacted by COVID-19
 

When once asked about motivating his people, Michael O’Leary – true to his style to amuse the audience said: “I think fear works great”. But many of his staff would agree he wasn’t being funny. The latest series of threats during negotiations with pilots – despite Ryanair’s upbeat forecast

Since Ryanair took over Laudamotion the company finds itself in a free fall. The employees fear that the COVID crisis may just become the end of this free fall (and our jobs). And Ryanair is capitalising on our fears.