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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…