Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority is stepping up efforts to ensure that airlines and aerospace companies can carry on functioning in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Europe’s air-safety regulator has recommended that companies using material from Kobe Steel review their supply chains and — if alternative suppliers are available — and suspend purchases from the Japanese company that admitted to faking data about product strength.

ONLY a fool or an adamant optimist would deny that the internet and associated technology brings us as many risks as rewards: It enables terrorists to communicate and recruit, paedophiles to lure victims, and hostile governments and so-called non-state groups — or just people with nothing better to do — to mess with democratic processes and attack industries in other countries. 

The flying of drones was banned in the air space over the site of the national ploughing championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois, last September.

Drones can play a critical role in helping farmers with limited resources to produce more food to feed a growing world, a conference in the Netherlands was told.

Skies full of drones, easier security checks for passengers, and global airlines are the future of the aviation industry according to a new strategy put forward by the European Commission.

Airline pilots should be psychologically screened and details of their medical visits shared in a proposed European database, according to new recommendations delivered to the European Commission in the wake of the Germanwings disaster.

Europe’s air safety regulator says it has found more than 10 incidents in recent years in which Germany appeared lax in following aviation medical requirements, prompting a European Commission investigation that is still under review.

Many airlines worldwide have begun to adopt rules similar to those put in place by the Irish Aviation Authority a decade ago to ensure there are always two crew members on the flight decks of passenger jets while airborne.

Airline passengers throughout the EU are to be allowed to use their mobiles during a flight without having to put them into aeroplane mode.

There aren’t many 14-year-olds who get to be launched 600m into the sky by their mother, so Harry Houlihan must be quite unique.

Israeli aircraft have struck 30 houses in the Gaza Strip, killing a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group and two of his sons.

Air France and Germany’s two largest airlines have cancelled more flights to Tel Aviv because of continuing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

John Kerry flew into Israel’s main airport today despite a US ban in a sign of his determination to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip – despite little evidence of progress in negotiations.

A Hamas rocket exploded near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on flights from the US and many from Europe and Canada.

As an election constituent and as a customer of Aer Lingus, I would like to raise the matter of the national airline’s threatened strike of cabin crew on May 30.

Passengers who board Ryanair flights will not be asked to turn off their phones — and the next step in onboard wifi.

The former ‘virtual airline’ which sold tickets for the flight moved last night to distance itself from the key findings.

Pilots’ unions have lost their battle to persuade MEPs to vote against new European regulations for pilots’ flying hours which they consider “unsafe and discredited”.

The president of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association is calling on Transport Minister Leo Varadkar to launch an independent investigation into the effectiveness of the Irish Aviation Authority.

Investigators examining the cause of a fatal crash in Cork Airport two years ago have blamed the delay in publishing their report largely on the challenge of translating highly technical documents from Spanish to English.

Airline pilots have warned that EU’s aviation safety body is placing the safety of passengers at risk due to proposals to change existing flying time limits for pilots.

Pilots and cabin crews across Europe are to stage a “walkout for safety” on Jan 22 over proposed “flight time limitations” they say will endanger passengers and crew.

The entire global fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets are to be checked for cracks inside the wings.

EUROPE’S safety authorities have ordered urgent inspections on one-third of the Airbus A380 fleet after the discovery of wing cracks on the world’s largest jetliner.

Europe’s air safety authority is calling on airlines to inspect their A380 superjumbo jets after Airbus found new cracks in the metal brackets inside the wings.

The AVOID system on a plane’s engine which supplies images of ash in a flight path, enabling evasive action.

THE Irish Airline Pilot’s Association has criticised new proposals for EU rules on flight time limitations, published by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

There were gains on both sides of the Atlantic today as positive sentiment helped stocks shake off eurozone concerns.

The London market shrugged off eurozone debt fears today as the FTSE 100 Index pushed to a fresh two-and-a-half year high.

Singapore Airlines grounded three of its A380 superjumbos today after tests uncovered problems with the planes’ Rolls-Royce engines.

A LIBYAN plane carrying 104 people crashed yesterday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, leaving a field scattered with smouldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline’s brightly coloured logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.

European air safety watchdogs are proposing new rules that would reduce airspace closures due to volcanic ash.

The aviation industry today condemned European transport officials, claiming there has been “no co-ordination and no leadership” in the crisis that has shut down most European airports for a fifth day.

LONG flight times, night flights, shift work, jet lag and early starts are all factors in cockpit fatigue that need to be addressed through changes to existing regulations, according to pilots’ unions.

Airlines were today ordered to replace hundreds of crucial instruments of the type suspected as a cause of last month’s Air France Airbus crash that killed all 228 on board.

RYANAIR has approached plane maker Boeing about the possibility of providing standing room or stools in place of traditional seats on board its aircraft.

A FRENCH nuclear submarine has reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447 to join the search for the plane’s black boxes, the key to determining what brought the Airbus down in the sea off Brazil with 228 people on board.

A French nuclear submarine reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447 today to comb the Atlantic depths for black boxes which should help determine what brought the Airbus down in the sea off Brazil with 228 people on board.

The grim task of identifying victims of the Air France plane crash will begin today.

Air France and other airlines today moved to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

PILOTS are flying dangerously long hours without adequate breaks, a report by international aviation experts will claim later this week.

A new independent scientific study shows the need for air crew fatigue laws to be reviewed.

Aer Lingus has announced that it is entering into final contract negotiations with a number of suppliers for maintance following a tender process for the provision of maintance services.