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In the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Doc 7300) (Chicago Convention), signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944, aircraft intended to be flown without a pilot on board were referred to as a “pilotless aircraft”. Today these…
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THE ORIGINS OF ICAO AVIATION TRAINING INTELLIGENCE  In the early 1970s the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) began pioneering TRAINTEL (Telecommunications) training programme to develop their training courses. Building on their…
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With air traffic expected to more than double to over 5,000 flight movements daily in the next decade, the Emirates Flight Information Region (FIR) became the world’s first airspace structure to be completely based on Performance-Based…
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With runway safety and in particular, runway excursions and incursions, remaining among civil aviation’s top safety risk categories, ICAO and its Runway Safety Programme Partners focussed  when they launched a new Global Runway Safety…
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Air Transport connectivity is based on the concept of moving passengers, mail and cargo with the least amount of transit points in order to make the trip as short as possible, at the lowest price possible, while continuously ensuring users…
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It’s World Youth Skills Day, and we proudly highlight key initiatives at ICAO to enable Member States enhance compliance and better optimize the socio-economic benefits that  aviation’s connectivity offers. Our Global Aviation Training…
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Accelerating traffic growth and emerging challenges on the safe integration of drones, commercial space flights, and artificial intelligence were some of the key points addressed in Strasbourg, France where ICAO’s Council President and…
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Why does aviation need AI? As technologies continue to advance, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play bigger roles in our futures. This might be concerning to some, but it is a part of our lives. AI has already been incorporated in many…
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Just days after its Governing Council adopted the international Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) supporting the ‘CORSIA’ international flight emissions offsetting framework, ICAO announced a new ‘ACT CORSIA’ capacity-building…
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​​​ICAO’s newly developed Aviation Data-Driven Decision-Making (AD3M) Course is to be integrated into Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore’s Aviation and Air Transport Advanced Management Programme. The new integration is…
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