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ICAO Secretary General highlights continued progress on compliance as key to Africa’s aviation…
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu concluded the UN aviation agency’s 2018 ‘AFI Week’ series of events last week, reaffirming that the continent has now established the necessary partnership and policy foundations to help African States…
Airlines and airports have their Eyes Open on Human Trafficking
By Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World and Alexandre de Juniac, Director General, IATA
Developing a global framework for unmanned aviation
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…
UAE implements world’s first PBN-only airspace
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…
New global runway safety action plan launched
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…