The future of MRO: emerging technologies in aircraft maintenance
Maintenance is a major contributor to aircraft operating costs, flight delays and cancellations. Despite longer-lasting aircraft and more durable engines, airlines now spend more on maintenance than on fuel or crew. The need to keep assets…
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Human Trafficking – can data make the invisible visible?
The connectivity provided by commercial aviation is a tremendous force for good, helping to power the global economy while at the same time delivering huge social and cultural benefits. In 2019, over 4.7 billion passengers will fly safely…
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Combatting Human Trafficking One Flight at a Time
Human trafficking – also referred to as trafficking in persons – is a global criminal enterprise second only to the trafficking of drugs and tantamount to modern-day slavery. Victims and perpetrators can sometimes make use of commercial…
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The 2019 Global Aviation Investment Summit
In his keynote address to the Global Aviation Investment Summit in Dubai, the President of the ICAO Council, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu reminded the many dignitaries and participants in attendance that “aviation is essential to States as…
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Highlighting Middle Eastern women and their roles in aviation: inspiration through success
Women in the Middle East have realized amazing achievements and many successes for which they can be justifiably proud. They are catalysts in sustainably developing the aviation industry.
These women have proven track records in…
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Middle East Air Navigation Planning and Implementation and Regional Aviation Safety
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he ICAO MID Office hosted the Seventeenth Meeting of the Middle East Air Navigation Planning and Implementation Regional Group (MIDANPIRG 17) and the Seventh Meeting of the Regional Aviation Safety Group - Middle East (RASG-MID 7)…
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Aviation security innovation: the latest and greatest
In September 2019 the world’s most prominent aviation security administrations and bodies will come together to take important, determined steps forward in the field of aviation security. The present threat environment is more dynamic,…
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History makers: Air New Zealand’s first mother and son pilots
~This story was originally published by Woman's Day. You can read the article in full here.
As a toddler, Ryan Bergman would be strapped into his car seat, perched in the cockpit alongside his pilot…
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Ensuring No Country is Left Behind, resolving significant safety concerns
Through the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), ICAO undertakes audits to determine Member States’ safety oversight capabilities and the status of their implementation of all safety-relevant ICAO Standards and Recommended…
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Making flying with a child easier and safer
The safest way to secure an infant or child on board an aircraft is in a State-approved child restraint system (CRS), in a dedicated seat that is age and size appropriate for that infant or child. In 2015, ICAO published the Manual on the…
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