The legislative proposal to harmonize and revise EU rules on flight and duty limitations and rest requirements (FTL) for air crews has entered its final stage, and the European Parliament (EP) and Council are reviewing the draft regulations. The outcome is not clear, however. The European Cockpit Association (ECA) and pilot unions across Europe have stepped up their lobbying of EP members to reject the proposal.

Qantas and Virgin Australia play waiting game on 787/A350 decisions

With the causes of delays now behind it, Mitsubishi Aircraft sees only normal development ahead for the MRJ.

Chinese aerospace industry's technical skills are outpacing management expertise

Europe's large airlines are implementing more cost-saving initiatives

Airbus’s answer to 787 in final stages of flight testing.

Private aerospace industry in India is making progress

Reviewing the Asia-Pacific civil aerospace industry this week, we see the great range of challenges facing managers outside of the world's main aircraft building centers in the Americas and Europe. India's private aerospace industry, only 12 years old, is grappling with the usual problems of a startup in finding skilled people and volume contracts—although local company Dynamatic is succeeding in high-rate production for Airbus while other Indian companies are carving niches in engineering services.