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Today’s youth demographic globally comprises close to two billion people; that’s two billion times more enthusiasm and energy  from a generation that is highly equipped, not just with the knowledge and passion, but also with the technology…
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Speaking to an audience of Directors General of Civil Aviation in the UN Agency’s North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACC) Region, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu emphasized that concrete financial and political commitments…
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Stressing that it will align respective national and regional programmes and targets with ICAO’s new Global Aviation Security Plan (GASeP), ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu is welcoming the recent endorsement of an Aviation Security…
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To ensure we are ready to train the hundreds of thousands of qualified aviation personnel who will be required to meet the demands of the next two decades, we will have to clearly understand the evolution of learning. We know the rapid…
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The Secretary General of ICAO, Dr. Fang Liu, was joined by the Consul General of China in Montreal, Mr. Xueming Chen, for the official launch of the UN aviation agency’s new Civil Aviation Authority Senior and Middle Managers Training…
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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…
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By Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World and Alexandre de Juniac, Director General, IATA
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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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