Posts tagged "wheelchairs"
The US Department of Transportation has again postponed enforcement of the core provisions of its 2024 wheelchair rule, this time to April 30, 2027. Two years after it was written, the most consequential passenger-experience regulation of the decade still has no teeth.
The 2026-2028 Global Aviation Safety Plan lists turbulence encounters among its global risk categories for the first time. US accident data shows who actually gets hurt: flight attendants, four times more often than passengers.
A Dutch court annulled the 478,000-movement ceiling at Europe's third-busiest hub in March. Five months later, the airport's own evaluation shows noise exposure falling faster than the government forecast — because of pricing, not quotas.
A modified Airbus A350 has already flown Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes. Now Qantas has to prove that a 238-seat aeroplane can pay for itself on the route no one else wants to fly.
A US$34.5 billion backlog, an E2 programme past 500 firm orders and a defence book growing 42 per cent. Embraer's problem is no longer demand — it is building fast enough to matter.
Mishandled-bag rates fell 23% in 2025 and dropped below pre-pandemic levels for the first time, helped by an unlikely partner — the tracker travellers bought themselves. But a $6.3 billion problem still sits in the transfer hall.
EASA's fourth revision of its GNSS interference bulletin, published in July 2026, quietly reclassifies satellite navigation jamming from a rare anomaly to a standing operational risk. The change reaches into phraseology, training and ATC capacity.
GTF groundings are down 40% from peak and LEAP shop visits now turn in about 100 days. But IATA warns the real maintenance wave arrives after the current crisis clears, and the industry has no plan for it.
Global air freight rates have fallen for two straight months as the Gulf conflict premium bleeds out of the market. With shippers showing almost no appetite for peak-season charters, airlines face a second half that looks nothing like the first.
Hong Kong, Singapore and Shenzhen are pouring capital into freighter aprons, warehouses and ground fleets just as forecasters warned growth would stall. The 2026 numbers suggest the builders read the market better than the forecasters did.
A proposal to let airport operators like Adani and GMR own airlines has cracked India's aviation industry open, with IndiGo warning of a 'massive conflict of interest' and Akasa Air welcoming new competition.
A new surface movement radar at Reagan National and a long-overdue control tower in Asheville show the FAA's $12.5 billion modernization drive is finally reaching the airport surface — the place where America's closest calls keep happening.