Introducing the “Online Airworthiness Information Network”
Aviation has always been an international business, but it is also an increasingly transnational business. Its continued and sustainable development and success are dependent on cooperation and communication between competent authorities,…
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New agreement to guide progress on proposed aviation trust framework for digital environments
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a development which will see the two agencies exploring…
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Teaching the Fundamentals of Air Transport
Recently we sat down with Dr. Suzanne Kearns, an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo who teaches, researches, and writes about aviation. She is the author of many articles and four aviation books, including the new…
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Runway Surface Conditions: The Global Reporting Format
Runway safety-related accidents and incidents are aviation’s number one safety-related risk category, with 59 reported accidents in 2016, of which more than half were due to runway excursions, according to ICAO iSTARS data.
A runway…
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ICAO Secretary General makes key contributions at WEF2019 on global aviation security, innovation,…
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu brought important civil aviation security, innovation, and sustainability perspectives to the recent 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she contributed to a wide range of high-level…
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Integrated Risk Management: A Holistic Approach to Managing Aviation Risk
Traditionally, safety and security have been considered two distinct domains. Risk assessments based on identified hazards and threats were conducted in isolation and often not shared between the relevant practitioners. Recent events have…
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ICAO’s Runway Safety Programme
Runway safety is a long-standing safety issue and has been aviation’s number one safety challenge for the past 20 years. About half of all aviation accidents reported to ICAO have been linked to runway safety. In September 2010, the 37th…
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The future skilled workforce: addressing the challenges in global aviation
Based on ICAO forecasts, by the year 2036, no less than 620,000 pilots will be needed to fly the world’s 100-seat-and-larger aircraft. What is even more important than this figure is the fact that 80 percent of these future aviators will be…
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ICAO and EUROCONTROL collaboration on new air navigation training
ICAO Secretary General, Dr. Fang Liu, and EUROCONTROL Director General, Mr. Eamonn Brennan, have formalized a new air navigation training cooperation agreement.
Signed under the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Corporate Partnership umbrella, the new…
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Investing in aviation: strategic infrastructure, institutional capacity building and next generation…
In his keynote address to the Global Aviation Investment Summit in Dubai yesterday, the President of the ICAO Council, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, reminded the many dignitaries and participants in attendance that “aviation is essential to…
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