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According to the latest ICAO long-term traffic forecasts that were published in September 2016, world scheduled passenger traffic, expressed in terms of Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK), will grow 4.6 per cent annually until 2032. By the…
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Airline emissions account for 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and, without stronger measures, would triple by the year 2050. There was a lot of attention in the news recently when ICAO Member States agreed to two policies that…
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When a pilot is communicating with air traffic control, static and other interferences would often create confusion with specific English language letters. In the very early days of civil aviation and military communication, and even today…
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With increasing global access to ever-more robust high-speed Internet connections, technology is becoming an integral and dominant part of our daily lives — from how we communicate to how we learn. Training for aviation professionals is no…
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Move over cumulus, stratus and cirrus…the computing cloud is playing a bigger role in the management of international civil aviation. At the United Nations World Data Forum which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa from 15 to 18…
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Aéro Montréal and the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ) are joining their efforts to promote SA²GE, a project to develop a more ecological aircraft. Aéro Montréal is a strategic think tank that groups…
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ICAO released preliminary figures that indicate that the total number of passengers carried on scheduled services reached 3.7 billion in 2016, a 6.0 per cent increase over last year. The number of departures rose to approximately 35 million…
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Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Bombardier boasts a heritage of innovation that dates back 110 years to the start of civil aviation.  The acquisition of Canadair Inc. in 1986 was the first of several strategic moves that would see…
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Bombardier's Global family of business jets has been designed to offer the smoothest ride a business jet can offer, and they recently set out to prove it by inviting a precision balancing act to perform on a Global 5000 aircraft in-flight.…
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