Source: IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA) highlighted three critical priorities for sustained progress in aviation safety as the 2024 IATA World Safety and Operations Conference opened in Marrakech, Morocco today. The industry must focus on continuously strengthening global standards, safety culture and the use of data to improve performance in the face of growing operational challenges, numerous regional conflicts and evolving cybersecurity threats. “Safety is aviation’s main priority. Over 4.4 billion travelers flew safely in 2023 despite an increasingly complex operating environment. To progress even further, we must prioritize global standards—implementation and continuous modernization. We must also continue to cultivate a safety culture with an emphasis on collaboration and strong leadership. And we must utilize the rapidly growing [...]

Source: ALPA Earlier this month, ALPA’s hugely successful Air Safety Forum touted the importance of two pilots on the flight deck, and now global pilot leaders have reinforced their collective commitment to oppose dangerous proposals by some airlines and aircraft manufacturers to remove pilots from the flight deck. Back in March 2023, pilot representatives from ALPA, the European Cockpit Association, and the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Association, forged a partnership—under the name “Safety Starts with Two”—to counter the aggressive corporate-led lobbying campaign that targets regulators around the world, including the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the International Civil Aviation Organization, to undermine safety by agreeing to proposals that remove pilots from the flight deck. The “Safety Starts [...]