Browsing Category
News
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…
Aircraft fire extinguishing systems: replacing the halon
Traditionally, halogenated hydrocarbons (halons) have been the only fire-extinguishing agents used in civil transport aircraft as fire extinguishers because they are effective on different kinds of fires and they are very lightweight.…
The 29th Meeting of the Asia/Pacific Air Navigation Planning and Implementation Regional Group
The 29th Meeting of the Asia/Pacific Air Navigation Planning and Implementation Regional Group (APANPIRG/29) was held at the ICAO APAC Office, Bangkok, Thailand from 3 to 5 September 2018. The meeting was attended by 173 participants from…
Cooperation and innovation is pivotal to delivering “Flight for All”
Heightened regional cooperation and cutting edge technologies will be crucial to the delivery of sustainable air connectivity to all communities, ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu declared last week at India’s Global Aviation…
What happens to refugees and stateless persons who have no passport?
Most of the time, when you want to cross an international border, you need to present a passport. And passports, as most people know, are issued by governments to its citizens. But what happens to refugees unable to obtain a passport from…