Source: Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Singapore will help promote aviation safety and raise aviation safety standards in the Asia-Pacific region through a new annual regional aviation safety summit. The Asia-Pacific Summit for Aviation Safety (APSAS) will bring together C-suite executives and aviation professionals from regulators, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and maintenance organisations in the Asia-Pacific region to discuss aviation safety challenges and initiatives. The annual summit will be jointly organised by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF). The inaugural summit will be held in Singapore in the second half of 2022. In subsequent years, the summit venue will alternate between Singapore and another country in the Asia-Pacific. On 18 May 2022, Mr Han [...]

Source: ACI North America Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA), the trade association representing commercial service airports in the United States and Canada, congratulated Philadelphia International Airport CEO and ACI-NA Vice Chair Rochelle “Chellie” Cameron on being named the next Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia President and CEO. “The airport industry and ACI-NA have benefitted tremendously from the leadership and dedication of Chellie Cameron,” said ACI-NA President and CEO Kevin M. Burke.  “We know that she will bring the same passion and energy to serving the people of the greater Philadelphia region. She will be missed by the ACI-NA team and her airport colleagues around the country and the world, but we wish her great success.”

Source: EASA EASA and ANAC sign Working Arrangement  Brazil is the first South American country in joining the programme, thereby further enhancing the global view of the safety performance of air operators The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Brazilian Aviation Authority (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil - ANAC) signed a Working Arrangement on the collection and exchange of information on the safety of aircraft and the compliance with international safety standards under the EU Ramp Inspection Programme. The EU Ramp Inspection Programme facilitates the harmonised performance of ramp inspections on aircraft visiting airports of participating States. The results of these inspections (some 10,000 on a yearly basis) are shared amongst participating States and are analysed by EASA to [...]

Source: ACI-LAC The aviation industry is calling for all remaining travel related COVID restrictions currently in place across Latin American and Caribbean to be lifted Airports Council International Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC), the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) are calling for all remaining travel related COVID restrictions currently in place across Latin American and Caribbean to be lifted. These include testing requirements, proof of vaccination, Passenger Locator Forms (PLF) and proof of COVID insurance, as well as dropping mask-wearing for travel within or between countries where these are no longer required in other indoor environments. COVID-19, and specifically the Omicron variant, is [...]

Source: ALTA Committing to continue raising aviation safety standards, ALTA will be holding its annual face-to-face Safety Committee meeting and ALTA Pan American Aviation Safety Summit on June 6-8 in São Paulo, Brazil. In its eleventh edition, executives from airlines, airports, flight schools, civil aviation directorates, aircraft manufacturers and suppliers will share an agenda focused on safety culture, data learning, post-pandemic pilot mental and emotional health, accident investigation, safety performance in the region, cybersecurity, technologies to improve safety and air traffic management, to name a few. The agenda will feature over 30 exhibitors with different specialties in the sector. “ALTA’s Safety Summit is one of the most important safety meetings in our region gathering leaders in the field. Year over [...]

Source: ALTA Committing to continue raising aviation safety standards, ALTA will be holding its annual face-to-face Safety Committee meeting and ALTA Pan American Aviation Safety Summit on June 6-8 in São Paulo, Brazil. In its eleventh edition, executives from airlines, airports, flight schools, civil aviation directorates, aircraft manufacturers and suppliers will share an agenda focused on safety culture, data learning, post-pandemic pilot mental and emotional health, accident investigation, safety performance in the region, cybersecurity, technologies to improve safety and air traffic management, to name a few. The agenda will feature over 30 exhibitors with different specialties in the sector. “ALTA’s Safety Summit is one of the most important safety meetings in our region gathering leaders in the field. Year over [...]

Source: ALTA The second day of the ALTA CCMA & MRO Conference began with a forward-looking panel of one of the most important aviation sectors: aircraft maintenance. For the invited experts, the most relevant issue is to reinvent oneself in a scenario profoundly transformed by the pandemic and the new forms of work. Moderated by Allan Bachan, vice president of ICF, the panel was composed of Jorge Jácome, senior vice president of maintenance and engineering at Aeromexico, Albert Perez, senior vice president of maintenance at Avianca, Marcel Uttembergue, vice presidentPresident of Customer Service at Rolls-Royce and Frank Stevens, Vice President of the Global MRO Center at Embraer Services & Support. In the words of experts, the synergy to facilitate work [...]

Source: ACI Data reinforces need to modernize global policy frameworks on airport charges Airports Council International (ACI) World has today launched its Airport Economics Report and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the financial year of 2020, providing the first in-depth global breakdown of airports' financial activities during the first year of the pandemic. The annual ACI Airport Economics Report presents an in-depth global analysis of airport industry revenues by source, costs, and related trends across the globe and over time, while the Airport Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide insight into areas such as financial and employee performance, fixed-asset productivity, and airport operations through detailed statistics. Impact on revenues According to the latest Airport Economics Report and KPIs, airports' primary revenue sources—aeronautical and non-aeronautical (commercial) activities—declined [...]

Source: ALTA Closing the technical agenda of the ALTA CMMA & MRO Conference 2022, Veronica Chavez, Technical Assistance Officer, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), gave a presentation on how the international body has been acting in search of a harmonization of the regulatory structure for maintenance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Veronica began her talk about the Multinational Technical Cooperation Agreement, which is currently signed by 11 states. This agreement allows the certification to be made by the local authority and this report goes to the other states for a multinational certification. According to the ICAO representative, the benefits of multinational cooperation involve costs and time of the process. “To bring some type of aircraft from another country it [...]